User interface is an important aspect of any game, be it a simple main menu with a few buttons, or a complex multi-window monster with charts and formatted text. …

Templates and compile-time execution in D form a basis for metaprogramming — building programs that generate another programs. This can be done in numerous ways, including mixins, template mixins, and of course templates by themselves. But there is another powerful metaprogramming tool that is not so widespread due to its…

WebGPU, as you might already know, is a future Web standard for low-level graphics and compute API. It will allow browser-based apps to interact with GPU in a modern way, using explicitly defined pipelines and an immutable state. WebGPU can be seen as a unification of Vulkan, Metal and Direct3D…

For several years I used Travis CI and AppVeyor for running integration tests of my projects, and recently decided to switch to Actions — cloud-based CI/CD service integrated into GitHub. Actions has many industry-standard features such as matrix builds, containers and artifacts. It provides great platform support including Linux, macOS…

As you may know, my main D project is dlib, a general purpose library for D language. It contains such functionality as linear algebra objects, computational geometry algorithms, I/O streams and filesystem abstraction, image and audio processing. dlib has rather interesting early history which is rooted in my old C++…

const qualifier is familiar to everyone, it is present in many modern C-like languages and used in many different contexts. In the most general sense, it means an immutable variable that can only be initialized once. …

Contrary to common belief, I think that D is a perfect first language to learn by a complete beginner of native programming. D has its roots in C/C++ realm, but its syntax is clean, modern and friendly. D doesn’t require deep knowledge of computer architecture to start writing programs. …

DUB is a standard package manager and build automation system for D. Before DUB appeared in 2012, everyone in D community used different build tools — such as classic Make, DSSS, CDC, xfBuild and custom build scripts, including those written in D itself. I used my own, called Cook, which…

D is a garbage collected language, and unfortunately this fact hinders its adoption by majority of game developers. Indeed, GC is not a helper for us. Writing effective and predictable real-time applications require full control over dynamic memory allocation and freeing. Games usually preallocate all the data in advance, and…