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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-02 23:57, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/2/2011 2:15 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:15:55 -0800, Walter Bright
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/2/2011 11:29 AM, Gour wrote:
>>>> Moreover, developing something from the scratch woudl require enormous
>>>> amount of time in comparison with *just* providing higher-level D-ish
>>>> API for some of the already available GUI toolkit.
>>>
>>> Developing a D GUI from scratch is way beyond our reach at the
>>> moment. People
>>> have spent enormous efforts developing GUI libraries for other
>>> platforms,
>>> there's no good reason for not leveraging their efforts.
>>
>> I absolutely agree. However, I don't thank that we should exclude the
>> possibility of building a scratch library either.
>
> At some point, a decision has to be made.
>
> Consider that existing successful GUI libraries have had *enormous*
> resources poured into them. That just is not possible in the D community
> right now. And even if it were, do we really want to wait 5 years for it
> to be built?
>
> Of course, if someone still wants to develop a D GUI from scratch,
> nobody is going to stop them.
>
>
>>> It's not just the code involved. It's the tutorials, web sites, manuals,
>>> support, etc., that would have to be reinvented. By developing a D
>>> interface
>>> to an existing one, none of that has to be developed.
>>
>> This is too true. But if it was easy, everybody would be doing it. You
>> could say
>> the same thing about compilers, but that didn't stop you ... :-)
>
> Frankly, I think a compiler is much easier to build.

Well, that's just only you who thinks like that :)

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/Jacob Carlborg