On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 02:08:39 UTC, Will Cassella
wrote:
Thanks for the replies, everyone!
I think I'll try my hand at writing bindings for my existing
game engine, as Grøstad suggested - that way I can gradually
transition the codebase to D if I like what I see.
My 2 cents would be: start with a toy project that stresses a bit
resource management (the toy project might as well be the
rendering part of your existing engine). The only part of D I
really don't like is non-deterministic resource destruction,
because it can be really painful when it comes to stuff like
OpenGL resources (e.g: if the GC calls any OpenGL function, you
get a "nice" crash since OpenGL is not multithread-aware by
default).
IMO the first thing you should do, is trying to see if you are
able to manage all your critical resources (including OpenGL
objects) by using D structs coupled with Unique! and RefCounted!
templates you can find in std.typecons module.
I highly suggest you to do that, because that is the worst hurdle
I had to face during any kind of D + OpenGL development. If you
understand how to get stuff done right, you are set, and the rest
of the work will be painless and fun.
