On 2017-12-06 17:50, mrphobby wrote:
I'm also interested in making native macOS apps. I have a lot of experience in Objective-C but I'm new at D. I'm a bit confused at what documentation to look at. In [1] I get the impression that support for creating instances is very rudimentary, but in [2] it looks much better with constructors mapped with @selector. What level of support is there in the latest DMD compiler?
The latest DMD compiler only supports what's in the official documentation, i.e. [1]. What's documented in DIP43 [2] (except anything marked with "unimplemented") is what's been implemented in one of my forks. I'm working on adding what's in my fork piece by piece to upstream.
Also, is there any support for creating macOS application bundles?
No, there are currently no plans for that. As far as I understand the Objective-C compiler will not to this either. When using Objective-C I think either Xcode or some other tool is creating the bundle. Note that a bundle is just a directory with a specific structure, which can easily be created without any special tools.
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/objc_interface.html [2] https://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43 -- /Jacob Carlborg
