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Hello.
For my first forum post I will share my effort over the past few days to help game developers that want to utilize D with an easy to understand library with lots of tutorials available.
This is why I translated JOML to D. Java Open Math Library is the most widely used libraries in Java game development. It is also very easy to understand. Used in games such as Minecraft and Project Zomboid, it is now available to D game devs.
You can see/get it here: https://code.dlang.org/packages/doml
DOML is built off the latest release at the time: 1.10.4
This is in alpha state, as in, I have rewritten every JOML unit test into D and made everything pass. But this cannot account for every function in every structure and every portion of the library. That is the part where you come in. If you find something incorrect, please, open a pull request or problem.
A major change from Java to D is not only the language, but also, utilizing D's powerful infrastructure. And I do mean that literally. Everything that was an object, is now a struct. Vector2i, Matrix4d, etc. If it makes sense for it to be an object, it's a struct now. This means that no GC hit with the new keyword. All the structs are just data. No complex overhead etc etc etc.
This library also follows in the footsteps of JOML with being completely modular. If you only need it for the math library or the Vector2i library, have at it.
Another major change from JOML is that there are no floating point structs, only doubles. No read only views either, as D can handle read only by simply not passing a struct in as a ref.
There are a few things missing, and this is because I wanted to get the base of the library up and running. I will hopefully be adding them in soon, such as the complex noise library. But I've talked long enough about it. I hope that this helps people, and thank you for reading.
