D features - wanna start project

[Dejan Lekic]

I would recommend the excellent Pluto (former fltk4d) GUI toolkit.
For more information: http://dronten.googlepages.com/pluto .

Lutger Wrote:

> toki wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I love D, and after using Java for years I want to switch back to D.
> > I'm too lazy to google, and so wanna ask you.
> > 1. Is D still under development ? Is it still supported ?
> > 2. Which GUI lib would you suggest - which is the most robust
> > implementation ? 3. Are there any OpenGL bindings ? Are they stable ?
> > 4. I often use HashMap, HashSet, TreeMap, TreeSet. Do they have
> > counterparts in D ?
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > Thorsten
> 
> 1) D is under heavy development and has branched into a stable (frozen) 
> version D1 and alpha, backwards incompatible D2. For D1 there is the dmd 
> compiler and ldc compiler (supports also 64 bit but not windows). 
> 
> 4) For D1 there is an alternative library incompatible with phobos: tango. 
> It is comprehensive and has high performance, also a good collections 
> library. 
> 
> 2) The big ones are dwt (port of swt), wxWindows, gtkd and qtd. I think most 
> stable is currently gtkd, but I'm not sure. Hybrid might also be interesting 
> for a game.
> 
> 3) Yes, derelict offers a plethora of game-oriented bindings to common c 
> libraries and is very popular. It also has an ODE binding. 
> 
> links:
> www.dsource.org/projects/ldc
> www.dsource.org/projects/derelict
> www.dsource.org/projects/tango
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries
> 
> Happy hacking!
>