dmd support for IDEs

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>> I agree however that GTK being in C is rather annoying, C is a great 
>> language but GUIs is one area where OOP really shines.
> 
>     Note that Gtk *is* object oriented despite being in C...
> 
>         Jerome

It's a sorry hack, you have to use casts everywhere you'd rely on 
polymorphism in D or C+ and its harder to remember, read, code, 
maintain, and doesn't have any performance gains over C++, the explicit 
struct pointer in C is the implicit 'this' in C++ and non-virtual 
methods can be optimized as direct calls with no vtbl indirections.

I tried gtkD and I don't like using an OOP layer on top of a C interface 
because that adds overhead for the exact same features, most good GUI 
libraries should abstract the platform anyways so GTK is usually only 
seen there and not in user code.

It's still more fun to use than the Windows' windowing API, which 
doesn't even support layout objects such as boxes and grids, now that's 
total pain!