dmd support for IDEs

[Yigal Chripun]

On 12/10/2009 07:33, Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> 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!

what about MS' WPF? It has all the bells and whistles of modern UI, 
doesn't it?