GUI library for D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:inddni$kmi$3 at digitalmars.com...
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>> I don't know if wee need yet another GUI library.
>> Are you sure Qt and DWT aren't good enough?
>>
>
> AIUI:
>
> DWT doesn't support D2 (neither does wxD).
>
> QtD requires a patched DMD, MinGW (which is fucking god-awful), and cmake 
> (I have to let some variant of "make" touch my computer? Why can't we just 
> let make die?). And it requires running your code through a preprocessor.
>
> And none of those have actual API documentation, they just refer to the 
> C/C++ docs. I use D because I never want to look at another line of C++ as 
> long as I live.
>
> Everything else is either non-native or non-cross-platform.
>
> The state of GUIs in D right now is pretty awful, unfortunately. My 
> plate's already overpacked (think: teenager at a one-trip buffet), but 
> maybe I'll see if I can squeeze in enough extra time (hah! there's a 
> concept I've completely lost all memory of) to try to help out on 
> something. After all, I *really* want to get around to making my own web 
> browser (based off either Mozilla or Chromium) - I'm getting really fed up 
> with the current state of available web browsers. Well, and the web as a 
> whole (god I fucking hate the web), but one step at a time, I guess).
>

Disclaimer: It's not my intent to belittle the hard work the DWT/QtD/wxD/etc 
developers put into the projects. I certainly appreciate the work and effort 
that's been put into them. We'd be a lot worse off without it.