the most D-ish GUI library

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Sun Mar 13 16:28:19 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 13 March 2016 at 22:26:48 UTC, Saša Janiška wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After long pause and trying some other languages, I've decided 
> to try
> (again) with D for writing open-source multi-platform desktop 
> (GUI)
> application.
>
> I've selected three different libraries:
>
> a) dlangui (https://github.com/buggins/dlangui
>
> b) GtkD (https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD and
>
> c) tkd (https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd)
>
> Debian Linux (Sid, x86_64) is my native development platform, I 
> use Emacs editor, but would like to provide my app for both Mac 
> & Windows OS-es, so wonder if some more experienced D users can 
> recommend which of the above mentioned libraries are the most 
> D-ish in sense to provide things like more D-idiomatic API, 
> properly taking care about memory management (in general, I'd 
> like to use SafeD), look on different platforms, actively 
> maintained, maturity, community around it etc.?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

DlangUI is still not mature enough. It lacks some features and 
has many issues. So be ready to encounter bugs and report them to 
author.

GTK-D is ok if you're ok with gtk on Windows and OSX.


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