The One With D

There’s been a sudden burst of announcements regarding D libraries — one native lib and three bindings. So I’ve collected them all here for your benefit. Thank me later.

First up, long-time D user Stewart Gordon, a D1 stalwart, has finally made the move to D2. That’s news in and of itself, but the reason I’m posting about it here is that it has resulted in his utility library being updated to D2. I’ve never used it, but you might find something useful there.

Daniel Kolesa has put together a binding to the Open Dynamics Engine, a rigid-body physics engine for games. Actually, he’s made two bindings. One, a static binding (meaning you can link statically or dynamically to ODE), has been created for the Deimos project. The second, a dynamic binding (meaning ODE must be loaded manually and static linking is not possible) has been ported from Derelict 2 and merged into Derelict 3.

Artur Skawina has announced an update for the native GTK bindings for D. I think the best place to send you is to the announcement itself, so you can get all the information you need before visiting the repository.

Finally, dnewbie has put together a binding for ocilib so that you can use Oracle databases from D. In my memory, this may be the first Oracle binding I’ve seen for D.