Current state of GUI's

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:15:47 UTC, motaito wrote:
>
> Thanks for the details! I was afraid, of something like this. 
> To me D doesn't seam very competitive without a complete 
> toolset :( Given that D has been around for a while now I am 
> somewhat surprised it's not further along. I know it's a lot of 
> work and not easy to do but clearly there has been a need for 
> this for many years now. The resources I found were several 
> years old (not including that they must have been working on it 
> for a while before abandoning the project). It will be hard to 
> compete with something like QT.
>
> I was hoping for a cross platform solution that would deliver 
> good performance without the complexity of c/c++. But if there 
> is no built in solution QT seams a better option. I wanted to 
> avoid QT because of the added complexity and the QT-windows 
> tend to lag on a windows platform. This may go away with 
> updates and bugfixes though.
>
> Anyway, I hope you will be successful with alphaPhobos. I think 
> D needs it, so don't abandon it! I will keep an eye out and 
> check again in about a year or so. But for now I have to 
> rethink whether to use D or not.
>
> Out of curiosity, why do you think that I wouldn't want a 
> Phobos solution? Wouldn't an integrated solution be better? I 
> would not have to maintain a build of an external third party 
> project, that may or may not be abandoned in the future, not 
> knowing whether there will be updates, bugfixes or missing 
> features to be added. It seams like quite a bit extra 
> management for my project if I have to keep a third party 
> project up to date and may need to adjust my code due to an 
> update in an external project.

Don't give up yet. I've learned that a D GUI is not so important. 
There is a plethora of platforms and devices (mobile phones, 
tablets, PCs etc etc), so it's better not to get married to one 
particular UI. Keep your program GUI-agnostic and then you can 
connect it to any GUI you want. And D is easy to connect to: 
C(++), Lua (LuaD) and Python (PyD).

With D you can concentrate on the program, the GUI could be 
anything. E.g. look at how the DCD/Dscanner plug-in works with 
Textadept and other editors.

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/wiki/IDEs-and-Editors-with-DCD-support