dstep VS dmd

You might also be interested in dstep, a tool that can generate D bindings from C header files.

- C, Objective-C = https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

> its test blocks make unit testing trivial to integrate.

Again, D also has this:

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/unittesting

  void main() {

It's a C lib, generating bindings is super easy https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

There is no need to maintain bindings that can be automatically generated, wich can easily get outdated if the C project is actively developped

Anyways, someone went a ahead and updated it: https://github.com/Soaku/raylib-d

Not quite as seamless as Zig, but dstep is an external program that leverages libclang to do the same thing (and generates a D module for you), as well as e.g., smartly convert #define macros to inlineable templates functions :)

https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

Here's the pipeline spitting out the same error as on my macbook did.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/actions/runs/8023469412/job/219...

Not completely on topic (if you read TFA) but my favorite Git commit is by compiler badass and HN frequenter, where he checks in an entire C compiler to the D language repo:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584

A new generated code alone is 4000 lines long [1]. The actual code added is just 2000 lines, and some are used to pay debts, I mean, to make a proper code generator (which can be alternatively written in a simpler scripting langauge). In any case it is never comparable to the entier C parser proper.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15307/files#diff-3677bcc89...

D is completely opensource already (https://github.com/dlang/dmd). The "open" of OpenD is just ADR saying that OpenD will be more open to new language features than D has historically been.

The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd

But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md

However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.

Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.