dmd platform support - poll

[Christopher Wright]

Tim Keating wrote:
> Christopher Wright Wrote:
> 
>> Tim Keating wrote:
>>> Supporting .net would give you access to the most modern and probably best-currently-supported Windows API. It would, if you counted Mono, add a very nice cross-platform UI framework. Finally, depending on what version was supported, it might enable you to write Silverlight apps in D, permitting flash-like apps that run cross-functionally in a web browser.
>> Cross-platform UI framework? You're talking about GTK#, right?
> 
> I think you forgot a smiley :-)
> 
> But on the off-chance you're serious... I meant WinForms (or, as of .Net 3, WPF, which -- on pain of getting lynched in this newsgroup -- is the most powerful and flexible UI framework I've ever seen).

Mono has a usable WinForms implementation. I noticed some issues using 
the NUnit GUI in Mono, though. Since GTK# is cross platform and more 
polished on all platforms I've seen it on, I'd prefer GTK# over WinForms 
for .NET applications that might run on Mono.