GUI library for DMD 2.090 or DMD 2.091

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 24 April 2020 at 18:52:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 15:50 +0000, Phrozen via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> @Basile B., thanks for the suggestion. I'll try this library 
>> too.
>> 
>
> Just a bit of confirmation: I am a fan of D and GtkD for 
> desktop UI work.
>
> GTK+ is just a UI framework unlike Qt (which is UI and 
> networking,
> database, etc.) and is fairly straightforward to work with 
> after the
> initial learning hump – which is the same between GTK+ and Qt. 
> Qt is
> really C++ and Python only though many languages have bindings 
> to QML.
> GTK+ has many bindings, C++, Go, Rust, and D to name just the 
> obvious
> native code languages. C++ (gtkmm) and Go (gotk3) bindings are 
> manuals
> ones, Rust (gtk-rs) and D (GtkD) bindings are generated from 
> the API
> specification (GIR files). I believe this makes gtk-rs and GtkD 
> far
> superior to gtkmm and gotk3.
>
> I have done a number of projects in Rust/gtk-rs and D/GtkD. 
> Overall I prefer the code of D/GtkD over Rust/gtk-rs *but* 
> there is much more IDE and editor support for Rust compared to 
> D. This makes Rust code easier to write than the equivalent  D 
> code, even if that Rust code is more ugly than the equivalent D 
> code.
>
> So whilst I keep wanting to do D/GtkD, I keep getting pulled to 
> Rust/gtk-rs simply because CLion (and Emacs) support for Rust 
> is so much nicer than the D support.
>
> I must laud Samael's efforts on the IntelliJ IDEA/CLion D 
> support, it is magnificent, but the project needs more resource 
> to get the CLion D plugin somewhere near as good as the Rust 
> CLion plugin. I am sure VisualStudio fans, indeed any other IDE 
> users, will say the same about their IDE, I am a CLion user so 
> try to push CLion support.

Just curious, how do you handle the whole RC<RefCell<>> story in 
Gtk-rs?

For me it made the point that languages with tracing GC or 
implicit reference counting are much better solution for doing 
GUI programming.