On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 00:33:44 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
This might change, but that's a gamble, and not one I'd take. For projects where you need specific libraries to exist already, D probably won't serve your needs. (It's definitely easier with C++ interop, but you'd still have to write bindings. htod doesn't exactly work on Linux.)
Does anyone still use htod? I thought dstep was the tool being used to generate bindings.
It depends on what OP plans to do. C interop is generally very easy, so anything available in C is also available in D, but it depends on how much of the glue code needs to be written. It has never been a big deal for me. The bigger problem is figuring out what the C library does than how to interface with it.
One additional thing I've learned is that other languages might have large numbers of libraries "available" but a lot of it is low quality, undocumented/poorly documented stuff. The ability to easily write C bindings is in many cases preferable to complicated C interop but existing libraries.
