Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2011-12-05 18:05, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Somedude"<lovelydear at mailmetrash.com>  wrote in message
>> news:jbhquu$1mj2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Le 04/12/2011 21:24, Jacob Carlborg a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> But the problem remains, CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript so you are
>>>> still limited by JS.
>>>>
>>> What about Lua ?
>>> I find it pretty powerful for such a small language. And I do think it
>>> makes sens to base a GUI on a scripting language.
>>
>> I'm with John Carmack on this one (not that I always agree with him): 
>> Using
>> scripting for parts of your program just encourages the team to have
>> non-programmers writing production code, and that's never a good thing
>> (hell, there's a lot of *actual* programmers who don't even know what
>> they're doing). And if the only people writing code are real programmers,
>> they may as well just use a real langauge.
>>
>>> As for the choice of
>>> Javascript with Qt, the choice is obvious: the goal is to be able to
>>> write once and run anywhere (i.e on desktop, on mobile devices AND on
>>> the web).
>>
>> That's a poor reason to aid in the proliferation of such a terrible
>> language. It's also a poor reason to write one's own software in such a 
>> bad
>> langauge. What's needed is for JS on the web to be replaced with a real
>> langauge, or at least a sensible one (or better yet, for this "web as an
>> applications platform" idiocy to finally end, but that's a separate 
>> matter).
>
> Do you have any opinion about Dart from Google?
>

No, since this is the first I've heard about it ;)  I'll take a look.