wanting to try a GUI toolkit: needing some advice on which one to choose

btiffin btiffin at myopera.com
Mon May 31 03:22:43 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 01:17:44 UTC, someone wrote:

> Any comments are welcomed, even any comments regarding anyone 
> experience with GUI development within D, no matter whether the 
> answer would be relevant to my specific question seeking a 
> choice or not.

Along that tack, and as an informational tidbit, if you (any one, 
not just to someone) ever find yourself with a desperate need for 
a gui, but lack development tooling, there is always the 
messaging interface to GTK, GTK-Server, by Peter van Eerten, 
author of BaCon.

gtk-server is GTK by proxy.  Send messages, get GUIs.  Not fast, 
but readily available to hundreds of programming languages.

https://gtk-server.org/intro.html

And for anyone interested in how some geniuses create programming 
environments, BaCon is a BASIC to C converter.  Ships as a shell 
script, that reads itself to self-host a C codegen pass, to 
produce a native compiled bacon compiler.  Self hosted as a shell 
script.  *That alone should warrant a trophy.*  And Peter has 
coded the shell script so that it can actually run as the 
converter compiler for BASIC, or convert itself to C to native 
bacon.

http://basic-converter.org/ worthy of a read.

Have good, make well,
Blue


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