Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Dec 4 03:50:28 PST 2011


On 2011-12-02 17:38, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Joshua Niehus"<jm.niehus at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:mailman.1243.1322814889.24802.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>> On 12/1/11 2:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> On 12/1/2011 2:42 AM, Gour wrote:
>>>> I'd like to help with GUI bindings if D community would come more close
>>>> together here with some people ready to lead the herd...
>>>
>>> Why not you lead the effort?
>>
>>     I just went to the Qt DevDays 2011 and it looks like a lot of work is
>> being done to get QML ready for desktop applications. Its Qt's next gen UI
>> framework and its JavaScript based (it looks pretty good).
>
> Ewww, why are so many organiations trying to put JS on the desktop? There's
> that, Win8, Flex, etc. It's such an abomination. Completely backwards.
> What's needed is for proper desktop technologies to take over the web, not
> the other way around. I can't beleve the spawn of what had long been dubbed
> "Nutscrape" has become, and is still becoming, so prolific.

I completely agree, JavaScript is quite a horrible language.

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/Jacob Carlborg


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