The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 12:14:58 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 11:05:24 UTC, Antonio Corbi 
> wrote:

> My goal is to write X-plat apps in the simplest way possible, 
> using one language  (D) and one toolkit (GTK). The world is 
> complicated enough these days in very many ways and this is how 
> I fight back.
>

I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few 
widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward.

- compile your gtkd program as normally you do.
- run broadwayd in your terminal (broadwayd comes with gtk 
installation) and keep it open like "broadwayd :2".
- ":2" represents display number, I don't know the things under 
the hood though.
- run your gtkd program with some extra environment variables:
   GDK_BACKEND=broadway BROADWAY_DISPLAY=:2 ./mygtkdprogram
- open your browser window http://127.0.0.1:9090

I have tested it on Ubuntu 16.04. It is amazing, there is a D 
program running on my browser and no webassembly involved :D