On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 02:14:53 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
You're missing a large part of what I'm saying.
I understand what you're saying, I just disagree ;)
I'd argue well tested and maintained dependencies are more
important than what language they are written in.
For people just learning the language and getting started,
saying go download x for your platform won't be enough. Look at
how we are handling curl right now.
No, for any e.g. library or window creation libraries and
likes. Must have an agreed interface that is not specific to
e.g. SDL.
SDL may implement them. But out of the box experience must not
rely on 3rd party.
s/bindings/wrapper/
Sorry, I should be more specific, but as I said in my earlier
post; slap a nice D interface over the top of the C library. In D
this is trivial.
E.g. such an image library there wouldn't be a JPEG
implementation but would be a PNG one. Because of the
complexity of implementing a JPEG reader/writer. Which is
ridiculously hard compared to PNG which is actually really
simple.
Again, I wonder why would you reimplement what you get from
libpng? Think of all the real world tests, tweaks and
optimization you're throwing away by not using libpng.
As for libcurl, well if a pure D curl impl is written for Phobos
it will be 100s to 1000s of additional LOC that require testing
and maintaining. The effort of that alone would be greater than
what is currently required from Phobos devs and end-users with a
'C' dependency.
If dub supported compiling C that would be awesome for my own
bindings/wrappers.
bye,
lobo
