On 6 February 2014 21:59, <"Ola Fosheim Grøstad\" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang@gmail.com>"@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Thursday, 6 February 2014 at 11:29:35 UTC, Manu wrote:

Some that I regularly encounter: system libs, opengl, directx, fmod,
physics (havok, phyzx, etc), animation (euphoria, natural

And just to nitpick:

1. Games are hit or miss with a very short life cycle. This is not typical. Most software have a life cycle counted in years with contractual support requirements that can be harsh, not months with very little possibility of damage claims for the end user.

I don't think you've mage a game recently.

Most big games are multi-year projects with teams numbering well in the hundreds, and then downloadable-content (ie, after-market content) is basically a given these days, and often supported by a different team than initially wrote the code.

2. The life cycle of games is porting when your product succeeds. You are F*CK*D if you don't have source code access and want to port to an emerging platform, so I believe you can obtain source code for libraries like Havoc and FMOD for that reason alone.

I really don't think closed source libraries should be the focus of D if it prevents having a good infrastructure.

I didn't say they should be a focus, I'm saying they must however be supported.