On 8/08/2015 1:07 a.m., rsw0x wrote:
On Friday, 7 August 2015 at 12:55:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 8/6/15 6:48 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
I really feel like D needs to get over it's "not invented here"
syndrome, a much easier path would to just use a pre existing cross
platform windowing library.
I agree (though I don't know much about which library would be the
best choice), at least on the basis of scarce resources. Large
ambitious projects are a lot more fun to start than complete. -- Andrei
Bare windowing libraries that are well tested already exist, like GLFW.
To be fare, the most difficult part about a windowing library, is to
make it behave identically on all platforms.
For a Phobos out of the box implementation, we only need to get it close
enough that programs can use it for prototyping.
For anything serious, something like GLFW is definitely a better option.
As long as we keep it well known about this and a migration path that
isn't at all hard, I see no problem with doing this.
