I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.

There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)

Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.

For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.

[1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
[2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
[3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
[4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg

Am 15.05.2014 17:02, schrieb Mike Parker:
> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in
> the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial
> commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was
> on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still
> puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>
> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped
> out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings
> up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it
> more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>
> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D,
> which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>
> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found
> at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it
> (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg

Congratulations! I've been using it now since about seven years and it has been a great help to get started.

On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:02:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>
> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>
> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>
> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg

Thanks for that long dedication! Using it since 7 years :)
I probably wouldn't have stucked with D if it weren't for Derelict, and I know other people who wouldn't have either.

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 07:43:06 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:02:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>>
>> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>>
>> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>>
>> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>>
>> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
>> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
>> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
>> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg
>
> Thanks for that long dedication! Using it since 7 years :)
> I probably wouldn't have stucked with D if it weren't for Derelict, and I know other people who wouldn't have either.

Same here.

It'd just be good for it to stabilize so we can write tutorials for it without them getting out of date (yeah, the APIs are the same, but Derelict itself keeps changing).

On 5/16/2014 5:32 PM, Kiith-Sa wrote:

>
> It'd just be good for it to stabilize so we can write tutorials for it
> without them getting out of date (yeah, the APIs are the same, but
> Derelict itself keeps changing).

For the record, I don't foresee any more structural changes now that I've got the versioning with dub sorted. Once I get all of the packages caught up, and barring any unexpected surprises (like, everyone abandoning dub for something else), it all should (finally!) be in a permanently stable state. I'm really happy with the current set up.

On 5/16/2014 4:43 PM, ponce wrote:

> Thanks for that long dedication! Using it since 7 years :)
> I probably wouldn't have stucked with D if it weren't for Derelict, and
> I know other people who wouldn't have either.

I think you've just motivated me to do drop everything else and work on Derelict exclusively for the next few weeks. Thanks :)

On 16/05/2014 3:02 a.m., Mike Parker wrote:
> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in
> the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial
> commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was
> on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still
> puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>
> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped
> out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings
> up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it
> more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>
> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D,
> which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>
> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found
> at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it
> (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg

I also have to say good job on your work on it!
I definitely value it, even if I don't use it much.

When I choose a programming language to work on a problem, one of the factors I look at is whether there are enough tools and libraries to construct a solution in a reasonable amount of time.

Back when I was looking at D for game development – and I still am – there was Derelict. And now, there still is Derelict. Without it, I probably would've wrote D off for this specific task.

I'm hoping in another few years, we'll have nice idiomatic D wrappers on top of Derelict for most things. There are a lot of promising projects out there, many that are quite nice already (gfm, for example). Derelict oft serves as the basis for these projects, eliminating a lot of the front load.

Thanks to Mike Parker and all of the other contributors for developing and maintaining Derelict for these 10 long years.

Regards,
Kelet

On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:02:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>
> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>
> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>
> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg

Thanks for your work.

Derelict is definetly a must to have for D programming.

regards

Congratulations!

On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 15:02:33 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I managed to let this little anniversary slip by me. My first post in the old Derelict forum at DSource[1] is dated May 6, 2004, my initial commit to svn[2] was May 7, and my announcement in the newsgroup[3] was on May 8. My attention to the project has waxed and waned, but I'm still puttering along. I expect to continue for the forseeable future.
>
> There have been a number of contributors over the years who have helped out in porting to Linux and Mac, fixing bugs, and keeping the bindings up to date. It's been very much a community project, which has made it more enjoyable to work on. It helps that it isn't difficult to maintain :)
>
> Maybe before the next decade goes by I'll actually finish a game in D, which is the reason I started Derelict in the first place.
>
> For those who don't know, the current iteration of Derelict can be found at the DerelictOrg group at github[4]. I've still got work to do on it (ahem, documentation), but it's coming along.
>
> [1] http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=105
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/derelict/changeset/5/
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/c7hl51$2k4u$1@digitaldaemon.com
> [4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg