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reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
I am stealing HerrDrFaust's question from the following Reddit thread:

 
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3wqt3p/programming_in_d_ebook_is_at_major_retailers_and/

Please answer here or there.

Thank you,
Ali
Dec 17 2015
parent reply BLM768 <blm768 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 17:38:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 I am stealing HerrDrFaust's question from the following Reddit 
 thread:


 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3wqt3p/programming_in_d_ebook_is_at_major_retailers_and/

 Please answer here or there.

 Thank you,
 Ali


Well, we have some bindings to game dev libraries, but the 
ecosystem isn't nearly as rich as what's available with C++. 
Derelict has bindings to almost all the "basic" libraries, 
though. I've been working on a binding to Bullet Physics, but 
it's stalled while I wait on a DMD pull request that I put in to 
allow the kind of introspection my method requires.
Dec 17 2015
parent reply extrawurst <stephan extrawurst.org> writes:
On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 17:46:15 UTC, BLM768 wrote:

 On Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 17:38:31 UTC, Ali Çehreli 
 wrote:

 I am stealing HerrDrFaust's question from the following Reddit 
 thread:


 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3wqt3p/programming_in_d_ebook_is_at_major_retailers_and/

 Please answer here or there.

 Thank you,
 Ali


 Well, we have some bindings to game dev libraries, but the 
 ecosystem isn't nearly as rich as what's available with C++. 
 Derelict has bindings to almost all the "basic" libraries, 
 though. I've been working on a binding to Bullet Physics, but 
 it's stalled while I wait on a DMD pull request that I put in 
 to allow the kind of introspection my method requires.


What PR is that ? Link ?

--Stephan
Dec 17 2015
parent BLM768 <blm768 gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 18 December 2015 at 00:03:06 UTC, extrawurst wrote:

 What PR is that ? Link ?

 --Stephan


https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5290

It adds some __traits that would make it easier for me to 
introspect my binding modules and generate glue code. Right now, 
I'm using several stages of build tools which loop over the 
actual source files to generate the necessary code, which has 
gotten quite ugly. With the right __traits, it's possible to cut 
out some steps. Once I've refactored everything, it might 
actually be a viable method to bind all sorts of C++ libraries.
Dec 17 2015