Do everything in Java…

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/5/2014 5:41 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> As for GUI code, I've always been of the opinion that it should be coded
> in such a way as to be fully scriptable. GUI's that can only operate
> when given real user input has failed from the start IMO, because not
> being scriptable also means it's non-automatable (crippled, in my book),
> but more importantly, it's not auto-testable; you have to hire humans to
> sit all day repeating the same sequence of mouse clicks just to make
> sure the latest dev build is still working properly. That's grossly
> inefficient and a waste of money spent hiring the employee.

A complementary approach is to have the UI code call "semantic" routines that 
are in non-UI code, and those semantic routines do all the semantic work. That 
minimizes the UI code, and hence the testing problem.

Most GUI apps I've seen mixed up all that code together.