Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

[Adrian]

Am 04.12.2011 12:50, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
> 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.
> 

Yes it is - but did you ever tried haXe ? IMO it is the best cross
platform language around - you target JavaScript, Flash, PHP, NEKO, C++
and soon Java and C# with one language. Typesafe with type inference,
compiled and code completion support from the compiler.