GUI library for DMD 2.090 or DMD 2.091

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Apr 27 11:27:57 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 26 April 2020 at 09:09:04 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 09:30:44 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 18:52:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Just curious, how do you handle the whole RC<RefCell<>> story 
>> in Gtk-rs?
>>
>> For me it made the point that languages with tracing GC or 
>> implicit reference counting are much better solution for doing 
>> GUI programming.
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> I don't know if you are referring to the `clone!` macro 
> described here[1]
>
> [1] https://gtk-rs.org/blog/2019/12/15/new-release.html
>
> Antonio

Hi, this macro is new to me, it did not exist when I tried to 
have a go at Gtk-rs, so it simplifies not having to write such 
boilerplate ourselves, but like the author mentions it doesn't 
make it go away, it just gets hidden behind the macro.





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