Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Peter Williams]

On 21/05/13 16:35, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:28 -0700
> Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/20/13 9:49 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, if D aspires to be a systems programming language it can't keep
>>> relying on wrappers around C/C++ libraries (especially C++).  In the
>>> long term, it should be D all the way down to the OS API.
>>
>> You wrote this as if not using c and c++ libraries is a predicate for
>> being a systems language.  It's not.
>>
>> What's with the D community's (yes, I'm over generalizing some)
>> not-invented-here syndrome?
>
> Conditioned aversion to C++? (half-serious)
>
>> Avoiding the incredible body of existing
>> code out there that's accumulated over the decades is foolhardy and
>> narrow sighted.  Are all c and c++ libraries great bodies of code,
>> absolutely not.  Is some of the code that predates D worth reusing,
>> yup.

Don't think of it as reinventing.  Think of it as reimplementing.

After all that's what we've done with wheels over the millennia.

Peter