On 2014-01-06 05:10, Adam Wilson wrote:
Hello Fellow D Heads,
Recently, I've been working to evaluate the feasibility and
reasonability of building out a binding to Cinder in D. And while it is
certainly feasible to wrap Cinder, that a binding would be necessarily
complex and feel very unnatural in D.
So after talking it over with Walter and Andrei, we feel that, while we
like how Cinder is designed and would very much like to have something
like it available in D, wrapping Cinder is not the best approach in the
long-term.
With that in mind, we would like to start a discussion with interested
parties about building a graphics library in the same concept as Cinder,
but using an idiomatic D implementation from the ground up. Walter has
suggested that we call it Aurora, and given the visual connotations
associated with that name, I think it is most appropriate for this project.
[SNIP]
So with the above framework in mind, let's talk!
I like it :).
Every time I read a proposal that has anything to do with graphics I
always start to think there will be problems on Mac OS X. Depending on
how much interaction with the platform is needed, it always comes back
to the same problem: interfacing with Objective-C. It's verbose,
cumbersome and annoying to interface with Objective-C without language
support. We badly need D/Objective-C [1].
[1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43
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/Jacob Carlborg
