D is totally useless

[Damian]

On Wednesday, 1 May 2013 at 08:42:40 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> I'm new in D, so i'm tried to write some in that langugage.
> That's story about how i tried to port OGL sample, that renders 
> one triangle.
>
> I was very surprised when i found, that D doesn't have 
> equivalent of gl/gl.h. Any C++ compiler has it.
>
> Okay, i'm investigate in it and found OpenGL in deimos.
> It doesn't support a lot of OGL function such as glPushMatrix 
> and others.
>
> Okay, then i found derelict3. It has a lot of OGl functions and 
> it's okay.
> When i tried to rewrite example to D, i was shocked.
>
> core.sys.windows.windows doesn't have a lot of functions. It 
> doesn't contain simple function DestroyWindow for example.
> It's intresting, but go ahead, i found derelict.util.wintypes 
> with missing functions. I've got a lot of "conflicts with" 
> errors, because some of functions was in derelict's wintypes 
> too. I've solved it. When i tried to link my program, i've got 
> a lot of "undefined reference" errors. Okay, i've built and 
> link derelict libraries. Then errors became stranger:
> DerelictUtil.lib(traits)  Offset 204C4H Record Type 0091
>  Error 1: Previous Definition Different : _D67 
> DMD\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\traits.d.17012__ModuleInfoZ
>
> So i can't to rewrite simple OpenGL example that consists of 50 
> lines.
> This example works on every C++ compiler without 
> building/finding any libraries.
>
> Dlang's standard windows.h heade is useless, because a lot of 
> functions/structs definitions is missing.
>
> Dlang is a toy in outer space.
> One can only to write a+b program in schools on it.
>
> Now i'm understand, that's why D doesn't have popularity after 
> 10+ years of existence.

The lack of proper windows headers is very discerning for windows 
users
and many have argued that D should come with these by default, I 
do think
that it does hurt D's reputation when a windows uses as to jump 
through
hoops just to display a window.

Having said that there is this: 
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI , which is a nice 
port of the WinAPI, as for OpenGL last time I looked
Derelict was the way to go.

There are a couple of tools like rdmd that will make building your
application a bit easier.