GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-05 01:16, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On 2011-04-04 15:41, Matthias Pleh wrote:
>> Am 05.04.2011 00:14, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
>>> Maybe your company could help the DWT or QtD guys?
>>> Getting something stable out of that would most probably not take as
>>> long as developing your own cross-platform GUI toolkit.
>>> Furthermore many people are already familiar with SWT and Qt, so they
>>> wouldn't have to learn another toolkit for D.
>>
>> You have missed the point. For our company the decision is made. We
>> already use C++/Qt now.
>> But I really like the D programming language and I use it for all my
>> private projects. So I think, we, as the D community, should create a
>> modern D GUI library entirely written in D.
>
> Feel free to do that if you want, but I think that most people around here
> would agree that your time would be better spent improving the existing GUI
> toolkit bindings - such as qtd or dwt. A _lot_ of time and effort goes into
> making a truly solid and complete GUI toolkit. Why duplicate all of that work?
> There's just too much else that needs to be done for D. And even if we _want_
> duplicate that work with a GUI toolkit which is completely written in D, you'd
> need a large team to develop it properly. And given the general difficulties
> in getting contributors for the various major D projects, I rather doubt that
> you're going to manage that.
>
> So, do whatever you want, but I really don't think that developing a new GUI
> toolkit for D is really the best use of your time. There's plenty of other
> stuff that needs doing which would be of greater value.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I completely agree. Qt has been around since 1992 and SWT since the 
1990s, starting as a toolkit for smalltalk. They both have come very far 
in their development.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg