dmd support for IDEs

[language_fan]

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:02:11 +0200, Jacob Carlborg thusly wrote:

> On 10/12/09 04:14, Chad J wrote:
>> Too bad we can't just make programs switch between GUI backends at will
>> ;)
> 
> Why not have a GUI toolkit available on almost all platforms that uses
> native controls just like DWT?

The list of native platforms SWT supports is this:

Win32
  WPF (under development)
AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris: 
  Motif
  GTK+
Mac OS X: 
  Carbon
  Cocoa
QNX Photon
Pocket PC

As a FLTK2, Qt 3.x, Qt 4.x, Swing, and (forked) Harmonia user I fail to 
see how SWT is more native than the ones I develop for. All SWT 
applications look weird, unthemed, and have horrible usability issues in 
the file open/save dialogs. DWT brings another level of cruft above the 
"lightweight" SWT and performs badly.