On Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 16:12:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
No, that would not work. Several years ago I created an The
bridge basically wrapped an Objective-C object inside a D
object, resulted in two objects for each object instead of one.
That bridge turned out to be a failure, vary complicated, huge
amount of template instantiations and bloat from a lot of
virtual methods that could not be removed. A simple test
application with a window and a button resulted in a 60 MB
executable.
DIP43 is the next step in the evolution after the bridge and
it's a much better approach. When DIP43 is done, or at least
has made some more progress it will be much simpler.
Please keep in mind that all this is work in progress, that's
why it is as complicated now as it is.
[1] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep/objc
Ok, I see! Sounds like I'll have to wait then. How long do you
think it will take until DIP43 is available for use? Is it months
or years we are talking about here?
