On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 11:05:38 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 10:43:40 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 08:12 +0000, Atila Neves via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Monday, 11 January 2016 at 17:25:26 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
> [...]
This is the kind of thing I wrote reggae for. CMake is an
alternative, but I'd rather write D than CMake script.
CMake scripts are hideous in that the language is like nothing
else, other than perhaps m4 macros. They should have used
Lisp. Or Python.
I must try Reggae at some stage, but for now I need to
progress this Me TV rewrite. D and Rust provide so many
barriers to effective use of a C library, that I am resorting
to using C++. Yes you have to do extra stuff to avoid writing
C code, but nowhere near the amount you have to to create D
and Rust adaptors.
What's so hard about writing a few function prototypes, aliases
and enums? It's annoying that we have to do it, but compared to
writing the rest of a project it's always going to be a tiny
amount of work.
What's hard is that the function prototypes usually use/need:
. macros
. struct definitions
Without a C preprocessor it's extremely hard to bind to any
non-toy C API. It's the only reason I'd consider using C++
instead of D. But only after trying DStep first.
Atila
