Biggest Issue with D - Definition and Versioning

[Kiith-Sa]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> On 2012-01-16 22:02, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>> A:
>> 1 -
>> I think we're getting close to that point. I do encounter compiler bugs
>> from time to time, but the frequency is rapidly decreasing with the recent
>> releases. We already have the "Easier to code" and "Decent performance"
>> parts, but there's a lot of room to improve (standard build system, package
>> manager, better Phobos, better GC or better noGC options).
>>
>> 2 -
>> This is a problem and it probably will continue to be so for some time.
>> Native D GUI framework of size of GTK/Qt is infeasible.
>> AFAIK GtkD is usable now, but not sure how D-like its API is, probably
>> not much?
> 
> DWT is a GUI library completely written in D:
> 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt
> 

DWT is a plain rewrite of SWT.
When writing D, I want to write D, not Java. I'd even prefer a C toolkit with 
a D-style wrapper to that. I do think that D is an awesome language to 
build a GUI toolkit from ground up - it's just unlikely to happen soon because
of the effort involved.