I'm curious: Is there a poll somewhere that asks what kind of software projects people write in D? If not, what does everyone write using the D Language?

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Working on a 3D engine, used OpenGL as backend but now using WebGPU.

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Lots of little useless libraries:

• JCLI (likely superseded by Andrey Zherikov's argparse): https://github.com/BradleyChatha/jcli

• A Lua 5.1 interface with minimal GC allocations: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/lumars

• A -betterC ansi library: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/jansi

• A Go Library that I might port to D: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/decorator

Many, many more that are too minor to mention or never even saw the light of day.

For applications:

• Most recently a coverage->HTML processor: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/dcover

• A cute little attempt at an assembler: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/jupiter

• Another cute attempt at making a nicer shell for Windows: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/bcshell

• A small game using Vulkan that I made 0 progress on, but eventually want to go back to: https://github.com/BradleyChatha/farm_defense

And again, many more minor things. And plenty of things that never made it to Github.

Some wacky things I want to experiment with, probably using D:

• A D-native scripting language, using the MIR library https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir

• Some weird idea for a file format, where the format embeds a script/bytecode which is responsible for actually transforming data from it's initial format and the stored file format, and vice-versa.

• My brain still keeps trying to come up with an interesting build system, but constantly fails >x3

So in general, just a bunch of random, mostly experimental things. From other's anecdotes, they've found that D is the perfect language for prototyping because going from a prototype into a production codebase is apparently very smooth.

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Mainly numerical (signal processing) algorithms, as well as various
associated small routines for presentation and analysis)

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Various. Latest thing was just a modbus client.

I don't do any gui stuff tho

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Well, I use this application everyday for window management functions: https://gist.github.com/preetpalS/d2482d6ec91eb8147e6cff43ab197ed5

It helps me stretch Windows across monitors in my multi-monitor setup.

I also used D for processing data before and I have written some command line tools in it (like a tool to find files based on filename, a random password generator). I am planning on using D lang more in the future for writing little command line tools as I need them.

I plan on tackling larger projects in D lang in the future.

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

Consumer desktop apps. D is a non-weaponized language that is fast and productive, and easily targets the 3 big OS desktops.

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 16:53:39 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:

What do you mean by non-weaponized? It's not specialized for a particular domain?

On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 01:48:25 UTC, harakim wrote:

I'm just playing with D so I haven't done any serious project yet.
The only one I did so far is a small library for parsing of CLI arguments.