D language for Graphical User Interface and Cross Platform Development

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2020-06-17 12:33, BoQsc wrote:
> It seems that by using gtkd project to build your GUI application it 
> requires a preinstalled runtime that weights around 40mb, for Windows 
> operating systems. (https://gtkd.org/download.html)
> 
> A Dlang UI GUI project by Buggins seems to be deprecated and even a 
> simple example could not be run anymore. 
> (https://github.com/buggins/dlangui)
> 
> I'm not aware of any other serious project that could efficiently 
> provide a way to build a stable GUI.
> 
> What should I do if I want to write a cross-platform application with 
> graphical user interface in D? Should I wait until there will be better 
> maintained libraries listed on the 
> (https://wiki.dlang.org/GUI_Libraries) or there are other ways to create 
> and build a GUI D language application?

DWT [1] is available as well. It supports Windows and Linux (GTK). On 
Windows no additional libraries are required at runtime, besides the 
system libraries already installed.

[1] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

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/Jacob Carlborg