Having "blessed" 3rd party libraries may make D more popular and stable for building real software.

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 1 July 2025 at 18:06:28 UTC, WraithGlade wrote:
> I am unfortunately however still very much a D newbie though 
> and thus I am very reluctant to depart from the mainline D 
> ecosystem considering that even less library support and 
> information will be available for Open D in all likelihood. I 
> want to make real projects for redistribution to end-users.

adr is the largest lib writter; you could debate who's the most 
important one of those but by line count and attempted scope, adr 
does all the things and dub and upstream are dead to him unless 
you start paying; or something like that.

There is still a large degree of compatibility(tho upstream may 
one day make a stupid breaking change) upstream isnt really... 
moving, these wild goose chases are just irreverent to code I 
write and mostly irrelivent to most historical libs; you cant 
slap @safe on old code without basically redesigning it or if you 
did and theres a break @safe change, afr is most likely willing 
to revert.

You asked for shipping raylib; look: 
https://github.com/opendlang/d/tree/cleaning-up/source/odc/raylib

its not shipping quite yet but if you were to do some cleaning 
and ask adr it probably be a week away; while I smashed my head 
into upstreams disinterest for years