GUI program on Mac OS in D?

mrphobby mrp at spinrock.net
Thu Dec 14 19:06:45 UTC 2017


On Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 16:12:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> No, that would not work. Several years ago I created an The 
> bridge basically wrapped an Objective-C object inside a D 
> object, resulted in two objects for each object instead of one. 
> That bridge turned out to be a failure, vary complicated, huge 
> amount of template instantiations and bloat from a lot of 
> virtual methods that could not be removed. A simple test 
> application with a window and a button resulted in a 60 MB 
> executable.
>
> DIP43 is the next step in the evolution after the bridge and 
> it's a much better approach. When DIP43 is done, or at least 
> has made some more progress it will be much simpler.
>
> Please keep in mind that all this is work in progress, that's 
> why it is as complicated now as it is.
>
> [1] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep/objc

Ok, I see! Sounds like I'll have to wait then. How long do you 
think it will take until DIP43 is available for use? Is it months 
or years we are talking about here?


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