Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>

Yea. I do appreciate how it's able to do so much with such simplicity (if 
you ignore the bizarre semicolon rules), but only in the same sense that I 
appreciate Brainfuck for the same reason.