The first official release of QtD, D bindings for the Qt application framework, has been released. It requires Tango, apparently builds only on Linux (unless I’m misunderstanding what I’m reading) and is released under version 3 of the GPL. If any of that is up your alley, you should hit the QtD googlecode page for more details.
D Bits- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Binding D to C January 8, 2012This is part one of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. This is a topic that has become near and dear to my heart. Derelict is the first, and only, open source project I've ever maintained. It's not a complicated thing. There's very little... […]
- Dolce and Da5teroids December 18, 2011So I've finally gotten started on some game code. In order to see if Dolce is actually useful or a waste of time, I decided to start by porting the A5teroids demo that ships with the Allegro 5 package. Here's what I've learned so far. First, the whole idea of Dolce as a framework on top of Allegro to allow an absolute minimum amount of startup […]
- Dolce Gets Some Love November 17, 2011Once the semester ended, I took a week to do nothing but play Dark Age of Camelot and get some much needed guitar practice in. Then I dove back in to the gym for some long overdue exercise. I also managed to pick up a few more private classes to fill some of the gaps in my schedule. Once I let off all that steam, I fired up... […]
- On My Job, and Some Big D News October 9, 2011Dolce is still very much alive, just getting little attention while I wrap up the second semester at the university. For anyone interested, I'm teaching in a special program where a local university here in Seoul is partnered with a university in America. The students do two semesters here in Korea before moving off to the States for three years. We... […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012
Hey!
Sounds great.. just heard about that port minutes ago and started googling
Really hope this will come to a point ^^ Never did any serious programming in D but I’m interested in an alternative to C++
Still I’ve got one question: can some assumptions already be made about the performance? Have you maybe even tested it? In general I have no idea yet how the performance of D compares to C++ so it would be great to know
Thanks!
I’ve not done any performance comparisons of D myself. But you can find some in the D newsgroups (primarily, digitalmars.D). From what I’ve seen, D lags behind C and C++ in some areas (really badly in a few) and is competitive in others. The GC is still immature and can be a limiting factor in specific cases, but it’s possible to turn it off when you need to. You will also get different results with different compiler implementations/backends.
Personally, I’ve not encountered any problem cases with D performance in my usage. Granted, I’m not doing any major projects with it atm. But there are several satisfied users out there.
GPL ?!
I’m very enthusiastic about D. I never could learn C++ (life is short, C++ sucks, etc.).
We need to be able to build commercial software with D. We know what the GPL did for Linux – a platform no one wants to write software for (except systems stuff and web stuff). A commercial backwater.
I sure hope this changes.