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

Dennis dkorpel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 20:00:01 UTC 2025


On Tuesday, 1 July 2025 at 18:06:28 UTC, WraithGlade wrote:
> **Nothing about my suggestion in any way ties any library to 
> the core language or standard library.**

You suggested:

> making [a multimedia library] as easy to use as the standard 
> library itself and perhaps even shipping it with every standard 
> copy of D

Let's say installing `pacman -S dmd` would put raylib-d under 
`/usr/include/dlang/dmd` next to druntime and Phobos. That 
version of raylib-d will only change when the dmd package from 
Arch gets updated.



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