issue porting C++/glm/openGL to D/gl3n/openGL

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On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 01:00:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 05:47:01 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>
>> Thanks. Bummer. I really like gl3n, but glm/opengl is used 
>> almost exclusively in all the modern opengl code (tutorials) 
>> I've seen, so this might be a deal breaker.  As the author of 
>> Derelict do you have any ideas of how much work is involved 
>> with getting glm to work with D?
>>
>> Want to do a DerelictGLM :)
>
> AFAIK, glm is a header-only library, so there's nothing to bind 
> to. And if it did have binaries, I don't think the current 
> state of D's C++ support could handle it. Binding to C is easy, 
> binding to C++ is hit or miss.

the performance would also be terrible because AFAIK nothing 
could be inlined(outside of LTO, maybe)