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teleforce 3d ago

Please check this interview with Lewis Nicolle who created his own game engine with Dlang for his new game Art of Reflection, and why Dlang very much suitable for game engine development [1],[2].

[1] Why D Programming Language?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teWQbYvPBTg

[2] Art of Reflection:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/The_Art_of_Reflec...

Kapendev 4d ago

Parin is a 2D game engine I've been working on for about two years.

tombert 3d ago

I've never been a big fan of D, but I also haven't done much with it so it's possible I would like it more if I did.

So, simple question: why D? Keep in mind that "I think it writes pretty code" is a perfectly valid answer.

omoikane 3d ago

I tried D after attending this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVpPstLPEc

My impression was that it strives to be a better C++ by fixing many of the annoyances and providing some well thought out convenience features, and it did a pretty good job. I thought the multiple version features and being able to write unit tests inline was especially nice.

But D came about before C++11 was a thing, and C++11 was a great ergonomic improvement over C++98. Since C++ got better, I haven't been keeping up with D.

Kapendev 3d ago

I like how easy it is to switch between low-level and high-level code, and it has some neat features for modeling data.

andsoitis 3d ago

Your game showcase is also cool: https://kapendev.itch.io

Kapendev 3d ago

Thanks!!

doublerabbit 3d ago

This is cool. Well done in the creation.

xyzzy_apps 3d ago

Every time I get excited to try a non C++ based language - Rust, Zig, D I am always reminded on how non-existent the mobile support is. Strictly from the standpoint of strong mobile support the only languages worth bothering with are C# and dart. Java and Swift are too tied to their platforms.

JuniperMesos 3d ago

There's a lot of interest in using Rust on mobile platforms, and it's definitely possible to write code in Rust that executes on mobile. I've personally been working on a mostly-rust project that effectively uses a Kotlin shim for the UI on Android, and this works surprisingly well and was less effort to get working than I expected it to be.

xyzzy_apps 2d ago

My bad, I completely forgot about Kotlin and Godot. Slint does seem promising same can't be said about Zig / D. When I mean supported it shouldn't feel hacky.

- C# by Unity and MAUI

- Flutter

- Qt

- Godot

- Kotlin

- JS

Personally I find my self sticking to Qt as the safest bet. Don't event get me started on VR support. Languages need to take Platform support seriously.

yhjc2692 2d ago

Agreed! I've been using Flutter + Rust (using https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge , which streamlines FFI bindings management). It's a joy to work with and run on all major desktop/mobile platforms with little effort, minus system APIs like win32.

Abishek_Muthian 3d ago

I might have misunderstood your statement but I use rust all the time with dart FFI in my apps.

hingler36 3d ago

Is there a wasm-esque effort for mobile?

Kapendev 3d ago

No idea. I weirdly want to use the Wasm target with some JS thingy to target mobile. Sounds like fun?

Ephraimd 3d ago

Always excited to see something done with Dlang. I still think that language is underrated.

giancarlostoro 3d ago

DMD needs to work on modern Macs. I am about to have a chat with Claude over how I can make that happen at this point, I have a feeling it will involve the LLVM D compiler, some assembly witchcraft for Apple Silicon and maybe some sort of bootstrapping method. I did toy with making Mojo work on Windows, but Max is proprietary so I can only use a tiny fraction of Mojo on Windows unfortunately.

deaddodo 3d ago

A good chunk of the community uses LDC or GDC for that exact reason. I understand why Digital Mars wants to retain control of the core compiler, but they certainly need to work with the community if they can’t get solid support on a major platform.

1980phipsi 2d ago

Walter has been working on adding ARM64 support to DMD. I think he recently got Hello World running.

Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang (github.com)