State of the Go API Bindings

[steve-rodrigue]

Good evening!

I wanted to use bgfx for a project of mine, I was planning to use the Go API bindings ( https://github.com/james4k/go-bgfx ) but it seems the project have been abandoned; the last commit was 12 years ago.

Is there any interest in having working bgfx go bindings in the community? If yes, I'd like to contribute and build its bindings. Since the initial project is 12 years old, I would start from scratch.

Are you guys interested in having working go bindings for bgfx?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

[bkaradzic]

I think there is interest, and if you use IDL to generate Go bindings the effort won't be wasted since Go bindings will be in main repo.

See how bindings for other languages is done here (bindings-*.lua files):
https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx/tree/master/scripts

[steve-rodrigue]

Yes, that's what Ill do. Ill start working on this during the weekend.

Thx for the link, Ill check how it was done for other languages in your lua scripts.

Thanks,
Steve

Edit: https://bkaradzic.github.io/posts/idl/

[bkaradzic]

Yeah that link more describes how IDL works. Main effort is in making IDL lua script for specific language, but once that's available, maintenance is trivial. When the original Go bindings were added IDL wasn't available, and it's just coderot.