godot-d

D language bindings for the Godot Engine's GDNative API

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D language bindings for the Godot Engine's GDNative API

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drewmate·Mar 5, 2021

Godot has support for many programming languages [0] through 'GDNative' which generally lets you access the API through any programming language that can bind to C++. I see that there is D support [1] but I have no idea how robust it is. [0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/scripting/g... [1] https://github.com/godot-d/godot-d

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krapp·Jan 30, 2020

This is just personal opinion on my part. Godot is a wonderful project and the Godot team have done great work. I gave up on Game Maker years ago because I realized I was pouring hours and hours into learning a language I would never be able to use anywhere else, and as much as I like Godot (and I'm really starting to like it) I feel like I'm kind of making the same mistake. Even though Godot has support for C# and third party support for other languages[0..5] I have no idea how mature such projects are, or what the long term support prospects are. Like as not, Godot is built for GDScript, most if not nearly all tutorials assume GDScript, and any plugins you find will probably be using GDScript. You can probably assume that GDScript support is guaranteed for the future, and at best, C# support is probably guaranteed for the forseeable fut

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ure, though not necessarily at parity with GDScript, version to version. Oh, and it also apparently Godot has its own shader language so forget about using GLSL as well, probably. As far as the language itself goes, GDScript has significant whitespace, and I don't like significant whitespace. Its idioms tend to be just unfamiliar enough to me that I keep forgetting things that would be obvious in another language. I really wish it had lambdas. BUT... it's still a capable language and obviously it does what it says on the tin. I guess you can stick with C# or wait until one of the other language projects matures, or just bite the bullet and use GDScript. The framework itself is so much easier to deal with than Unity IMHO, and for 2D I think it's worth the frustration. All of my issues with the language, thus far, are relatively minor and entirely subjective. [0]https://github.com/perbone/luascript [1]https://github.com/Geequlim/ECMAScript [2]https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python [3]https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-d [4]https://github.com/ShadowApex/godot-go [5]https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim

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grawprog·Apr 12, 2019

>Godot can support different languages (unlike Unity or Game Maker), but IIRC that requires recompiling the engine and may break the editor. Personally i've been using this for godot: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-d It's been working well for me. I compile my code and include it as an .so in my project. No recompiling the editor.

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giancarlostoro·Mar 26, 2018

I really wasn't! Glad you found it, I think the Github repository is even older if it's the project I saw a while back. All of that is possible because of GDNative, which ties together native code back to Godot itself so you don't have to recompile the whole engine just to bind native code to it. Adding a link to their GitHub since to me is looks like the dub website is slow / down? Link to D bindings for Godot: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-d Edit: Looks like they got Rust and C++ bindings in their umbrella too: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools

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earenndil·Jan 30, 2018

> There's also community support for python and some other languages There appears to be semi-official support for D[1] and Rust[2]. I also found some bindings for Nim[3]. However, since c# is supported, you can probably (?) also just use any language that runs on .net[4]. 1: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-d 2: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-rust 3: https://pragmagic.github.io/godot-nim/v0.5.2/ 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages

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