WPFfor d

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-17 22:56, Adam Wilson wrote:

> It is similar yes. In WPF, XAML is specialized XML that is deserialized
> at compile-time and translated into C#/VB.NET etc. In Silverlight/WinRT
> it is deserialized at runtime. I think for D compile-time
> deserialization makes sense for two reasons. The first is that you get
> more flexibility to work around D's lack of the deep reflection
> capabilites of .NET. The second is that as good as XAML is, it is
> ridiculously verbose. Creating a purpose-built DSL would be a much more
> efficient implementation idea IMHO. This would also make it much easier
> to re-target the GUI language and libraries to other languages.

I would at least start with deserializing at runtime, since that seems 
easier.

This is also how GUI's are built on Mac OS X. Create the GUI in 
Xcode/InterfaceBuilder and it will serialize it to binary or XML. Then 
it will be deserialized at runtime.

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/Jacob Carlborg