Qt-interest Archive, April 2007
Re: D programming language bindings?
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Richard Dale wrote:
>> Well, the Python bindings use plain C too for the binding code, that
>> works pretty well. Of course for those its easier because Phil Thompson
>> wrote sip - a binding generator to create Python bindings for C++ code.
>> But still, if you can come up with such a tool the binding is not that
>> hard anymore (AFAIK the Ruby bindings are done with a similar framework)
>
> Bindings are very hard, and there is a lot of work to do even once you
> written a generator like SIP. The runtime issues you have to solve are
> more difficult than it first appears. The less dynamic a language is, the
> harder it is to do the runtime, and from what I've read D doesn't have
> anything much in the way of a dynamic runtime.
For people interested in this topic, I found that there is someone working
on a binding-generator:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd/
I haven't tried it yet, but at the moment I think this is the most likely
way to go.
Arne
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