dmd support for IDEs + network GUI (OT)

[David Gileadi]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Video game developers don't make multiplayer games by sending a compressed 
> video stream of the fully-rendered frame - they know that would be unusable. 
> Instead, they just send the minimum higher-level information that's actually 
> needed, like "PlayerA changed direction 72 degrees" (over-simplification, of 
> course). And they send it to a client that'll never insist on crap like 
> interpreted JS or open-for-interpretation standards. And when there's a 
> technology that's inadequate for their needs, like TCP, they make a proper 
> replacement instead of hacking in a half-assed "solution" on top of the 
> offender, TCP. And it works great even though those programs have visuals 
> that are *far* more complex than a typical GUI app. So why can't a windowing 
> toolkit be extended to do the same? And do so *without* building it on top 
> such warped, crumbling, mis-engineered foundations as (X)HTML, Ajax, etc.?

This is generally true, although see OnLive (http://www.onlive.com/).  I 
hear it works better than you'd expect, but don't have much interest in 
actually trying it.