dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Christopher Wright]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 10/17/09 00:23, Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 10/16/09 12:58, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>>> GtkD supports Glade.
>>>
>>> Yes, but GtkD doesn't use native controls.
>>
>> A minor point, I think. Eclipse doesn't look very native and has
>> widespread acceptance.
> 
> It depends on what you're looking at. The SWT philosophy is something 
> like this: Use controls that are available as native controls on as many 
> platforms as possible. For example, if a control is available as native 
> on 3 out of 4 platforms, use the native on the 3 platforms and emulate 
> it on the fourth. If a control is only native on 1 out of 4 platforms 
> don't include it in SWT. SWT also has some custom (non-native) controls 
> like the tabs used by Eclipse.

And the tabs are everywhere, and no attempt was made to make them look 
native to any platform.