Andrei writes "The Case for D"

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Tue Jun 16 05:35:35 PDT 2009


Tim Matthews wrote:
>> "Last but definitely not least, two windowing libraries complete the 
>> language's offering quite spectacularly. The mature library DWT is a 
>> direct port of Java's SWT. A newer development is that the immensely 
>> popular Qt Software windowing library has recently released a D 
>> binding (in alpha as of this writing)."
>>
>> In other words, so long and thanks for all the fish: GDC and wxD ?
> 
> About the gui toolkits: Never mind the fact that GTKD has been working 
> stable for a long time unlike the QT port. Best to include both to keep 
> wars at bay in my opinion like kde vs gnome.

Even though there are native versions of GTK+ for Windows and Mac OS X,
I think wxWidgets looks slightly better (it does use GTK+ on Unix/X11)

As for the news article, to make it interesting I suppose that it has to
mention the latest and greatest ? And DWT _is_ standard DMD GUI library.

--anders



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