D game development: a call to action

[Jonathan A Dunlap]

I am one of the few who have taken a keen interest in D for game 
development. The concise language and modern conveniences may be 
able to reduce many hours worth of development time off a game 
project, while making the code more maintainable. Aside from the 
core language, Dlang graphics bindings have a way to go before 
even earning acceptance in the indie gaming scene, but it's 
making great strides to get there.

The main challenge I've hit is the lack of any sort of path for 
adopting a media engine. Bindings (like SFML 
https://github.com/krzat/SFML-D) all suffer from:

A) No information about its current status: this is scary if its 
repo hasn't been updated in months.
B) Usually are complex to get working in a new project (manually 
building or searching for undocumented dependency DLLs)
C) Lack practical references and tutorials for "real would usage"
e.g. "how to create an OpenGL window" or "how to render a 
triangle"
versus something like "how to load from disk an image texture 
onto a quad and move it around using keyboard events"

SFML bindings are also in https://github.com/aldacron/Derelict3 
but I couldn't find a scrap of information on how to use it, how 
to compile correctly, or example usage. It's unclear if the 
library is even usable in its current state.

Please don't take this as blind criticism, but rather a plea to 
action for the community to provide better library documentation 
support for: current lib status, getting started adding it, and a 
general use tutorial/example. If we start doing this, it'll make 
a big impact for other game developers who are new to Dlang to 
adopt the language. Thanks for listening!