Best way to use large C library in D as of 2024

[Chris Piker]

On Monday, 1 April 2024 at 02:08:20 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 March 2024 at 05:01:32 UTC, harakim wrote:
> It works well if you only need to work with a header. There are 
> still a few rough edges that get in the way if you're compiling 
> the full C sources (I filed bugs for all of them):
>
> - Can't handle va_arg
> - Can't cast to a pointer of a struct that's typedef'd
> - Can't use complex numbers with the ternary operator
>
...
> Once these final odds and ends are working, we have a killer 
> language feature.

Even though DMD can't compile some C code, that's pretty much a 
non-issue for me anyway.  In my environment the servers are all 
Linux so "apt-get" (or equivalent) typically provides a 
pre-compiled dependency.  Being able to list a package as a 
system dependency and then just call it from D with no interface 
code is a Big Freaking Deal!

Compared to Python interfaces this is a huge improvement.  It 
makes D an even better replacement for the mixed mode python + C 
development I was doing before switching to D for new projects.