> OTOH libraries are (hopefully) tested and stable That's what they *want* you to think! :-P
Of course, I'm exaggerating a little, but I stand by it in many cases: yeah, there's some hard stuff like crypto and gui, but most stuff isn't that bad. For that hard stuff though, there's always C libraries. The popular C libs are generally fairly stable and not hard to use in D, license permitting. (Sometimes I think people forget that D has a *bigger* library ecosystem than C, since every C library is also usable from D! And thanks to D features, like scope guards and array ops, they tend to be pretty easy to use straight up too.) > Another example is GUI libraries Aye, GUI is the biggest example of hard stuff to implement well that's also hard to use from C. Crypto isn't bad since C libraries implement them with a pretty easy interface; it's generally just a handful of functions in my experience. (Contrast to guis where it's often hundreds of classes each with dozens of methods and callbacks... just writing out their prototypes can take a while!)
