On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 01:53:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
When binding to a C library, it's desirable to have as close to the original C API as possible so that you *can* drop C snippets and examples into D code and have them just work. Obviously, 100% compatibility is not possible, but it is possible to get pretty close most of the time.
The reason that VK_NULL_HANDLE cannot (currently) be directly implemented in D it is not type safe.
D's type safety is usually considered to be a positive selling point for the language; that's what I mean when I say that "you aren't *supposed* to be able to just copy-paste any random C snippet into D".
