On Wednesday, 28 March 2012 at 15:31:26 UTC, Bennie Copeland
wrote:
Great to hear someone with experience with it. Was there any
issues with the code that had to be tweaked depending on the
OS? When I was looking at C++, there was implementation defined
data type sizes, endieness, implementation defined order of
variables in a struct, etc. On that topic, what do I have to
consider in D if I want binary compatibility in files saved on
different OS's?
I cannot give you any advice as regards C++, because I have never
really used it - avoiding it like the plague. My strategy is to
keep things as simple as possible and use C only as the "glue".
It's a bit like the Lua approach which only uses ANSI C to ensure
maximum portability.
Since I have just started to put the pieces together, I have yet
to test whether it works on all platforms. I haven't tested it on
Windows yet and don't know where the pitfalls are (and I am sure
there are some!). It is amazing, though, how easily C code can be
integrated into a D program. I have to use two external
frameworks/libraries written in C (one of them the utf8proc
library). With a few lines of code I've got all the functionality
I need without writing any wrappers.
I have not yet used Objective-C with D directly. Does anyone have
experience with that?
