On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 13:27:48 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
3ddemo has one commit. In February 2016. I think it would be an
amazing feat indeed if a project with one version builds for
more than 2 years in any language.
This problem is not about 3ddemo. I can totally relate to the OP,
when I started learning D (we're talking April 2017 here) I tried
many OpenGL demos and GUI libraries. I like learning by example,
so I tried a lot of them on both Ubuntu and Windows. My success
rate of building them was below 20%, and even if it did succeed,
it often still had deprecation warnings, or linking errors when
loading the required shared libraries, or glitches like messed up
text rendering. I would try to fix it myself, but the error
messages were not clear at all for a beginner and Googling them
yielded few results.
We're not even only talking about small unmaintained projects
here: at the time I tried it, Gtk-D was broken.[1] Out of
frustration I carried on in C# for a while, and guess what: the
first best OpenTK demo I found basically worked first try. Now I
didn't give up on D, but I can totally understand that others
(like OP) don't have the patience to put up with this.
While we can't force volunteers to keep their D projects up to
date, we could try to give some incentive by notifying them via
code.dlang.org, or give users information on what compiler /
environment is required for dub packages to build. It might
prevent some new users from leaving D out of frustration.
[1] https://forum.gtkd.org/groups/GtkD/thread/589/
