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the D programing language has been around for some time. i've been keeping an eye on it to see if it actually takes off or not.

i like the look of it and haveing seen some compairsons between D and C++ it actually does run a bit faster.

seeing as they keept the c/c++ format when designign the D language it shouldn't be that hard to learn if you know c/c++(altho i havent trying using it YET).

it would be nice to see a version of opengl ported over to D would give me a reason to try it out..............hmm...i wonder if i could use opengl with it since its suposed to use they standard win32 api's.


/me starts reading more about D ;)

opengl bindings for D already exist for ages...

check out this page, bindings for pretty much every lib you'll need for graphics programming:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict

I think that it is reproducing the follies of C++ rather than learning from them. I am though a highly skeptical person by nature and not dealt with it much.

It does a lot of things better than C++ and others just differently. All in all I think it's an improvement over C++, but using/making libraries is still a bit of a problem (unless you are fine with C calling conventions only, so no exported objects etc)

Kenta Cho uses D for most of his games. It's a language I keep meaning to look into, but from what I've seen it sits slightly uncomfortably between trying to be a robust high level language like Java or C# and with trying to be a low-level bit twiddling language like C. If you really need both extremes it might be better to use C++ for the low level bits and a scripting language for the high level.

We've had long, rambling discussions here on D in the past. My feeling is that there's nothing sufficiently compelling about it that it would overcome more mature and widespread HLLs like C# and Python.

I tried to get into a couple of months ago, but the library support for it (things that would replace core elements of SC++L and Boost, primarily) seemed kind of lacking or incomplete. And I really don't want to have to implement my own containers all the time. Maybe I overlooked something, though. I was really interested in some of the other features. Oh well.

- What do you think of the D language?
- D programming language
- D version 1.0

Enjoy.

Wow thanks all, didn't realize there had been so much talk about it already, sorry, guess I should have searched first.

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Original post by Agony I tried to get into a couple of months ago, but the library support for it (things that would replace core elements of SC++L and Boost, primarily) seemed kind of lacking or incomplete. And I really don't want to have to implement my own containers all the time. Maybe I overlooked something, though. I was really interested in some of the other features. Oh well.

Because of this there has been a community effort to provide an alternative to the standard library. It's in beta and perhaps a weird situation as it is a replacement, but it has lots of the basic stuff and of high quality: Tango

Regards

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Original post by DeadXorAlive Quote: Original post by Agony I tried to get into a couple of months ago, but the library support for it (things that would replace core elements of SC++L and Boost, primarily) seemed kind of lacking or incomplete. And I really don't want to have to implement my own containers all the time. Maybe I overlooked something, though. I was really interested in some of the other features. Oh well. Because of this there has been a community effort to provide an alternative to the standard library. It's in beta and perhaps a weird situation as it is a replacement, but it has lots of the basic stuff and of high quality: Tango Regards

Cool, it looks really impressive!

I downloaded the compiler when it hit v1.0, but still haven't gotten around to using it. I notice that it has rndint in Tango.math.Math for very fast float to int conversions. Also, there's an feq function for floating point comparison. Now that was a smart thing to include.
tango.core.Atomic looks pretty cool too. Nice to have that in the library.
I did notice the lack of a stable sort algorithm in tango.core.Array though.

I'm gonna have to give this stuff a go shortly. I really hope the language takes off in a big way!

my favorite thread involving D