Will D have a standard cross platform GUI toolkit?

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 26 11:14:17 PST 2015


On 2015-02-26 19:20, Rinzler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if D will have a standard cross platform GUI toolkit.
>
> I think that any modern language should provide a cross-platform GUI
> toolkit. I know that there are some GUI toolkits, but are there
> cross-platform? Are there serious works? That is, will them always be
> supported and evolve along with the D programming language?
>
> I think that having bindings of a GUI toolkit for a programming
> languages can be useful, but they have to be well supported.
>
> Will QT support D programming language? I really love the Qt framework
> (except from the fact it's not open source, as far as I know), even
> though I have not used it a lot.
>
> I have to admit that I love D, even if I did not start programming with
> it. It seems it combines the most useful things of C++ and Java, which
> are my favourite programming languages.

Since Java is one of your favorite languages I can recommend DWT [1], a 
port of SWT to D. It works for Windows and Linux, a port of OS X is 
being worked on.

[1] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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