Andrei writes "The Case for D"

Robert Jacques sandford at jhu.edu
Tue Jun 16 08:55:42 PDT 2009


On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:00:46 -0400, Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se>  
wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8stcr/the_case_for_d/
>
> http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/217801225 says:
>
> "There are two major versions of the language -- D1 and D2.
> This article focuses on D2 exclusively."
>
> "The official D compiler is available for free off digitalmars.com on  
> major desktop platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux). Other implementations  
> are underway, notably including an a .NET port and one using the LLVM  
> infrastructure as backend."
>
> "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 ?
>
> --anders

Not to mention DFL. Also, DWT requires Tango and doesn't support phobos,  
so it doesn't "complete the language's offering quite spectacularly".



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