D Binding to GUI libraries

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Oct 22 18:59:11 UTC 2018


On 2018-10-22 12:06, Russel Winder wrote:
> Jacob,
> 
> GitHub is currently making a total mess for me of our conversation on
> Issue 42, I see stuff then it goes away. Apologies if I have made a
> mess of that conversation for you.

Yeah, I noticed that. GitHub had/still having some major issues [1].

> Swing is, but JavaFX is now OpenJFX and a separate think to OpenJDK.

JavaFX is shipped with Java 8 at least, the one I was running (I'm a bit 
behind).
> Indeed. But compared to Qt (and maybe GTK+ and wxWidgets) it is very
> much a niche framework.

Why do you think that, besides from being written in Java?

> Or it has many native GUIs whereas Windows and macOS offer no choice?

Haha, I guess you can look at it that way.

> I still think getting a Qt binding for D à la PyQt, PySide2, Rust-Qt,
> i.e. automated with minimal manual tweeks, would be a Very Good Thing™
> for the D pitch in the desktop GUI applications arena.

Sure, different toolkits for different needs.

[1] https://status.github.com/messages

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/Jacob Carlborg


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