GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-04 23:27, Matthias Pleh wrote:
> was: [GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian
>
> To preventing losing this thread, I have created a new one ...
> Additional, I've added a license column on the GuiLibraries-table on the
> wiki.
>
> So, let me summarize my thoughts, why I think a good Gui library is
> important for the D community.
> I'm working for an enginge builder company. Our product is mainly
> mechanical, but also has a software part, which is created and
> maintained by a 16 (and growing) man team. Our softwareproduct is mainly
> server-side and timecritical, written in C++/MFC and very old. We've
> decided to create it new from scratch. As a member of the design team of
> this new project I've tried to inturoduce D for this. But it was
> impossible to assure the others. The main counter-argument was the lack
> of a good D-Gui library, though the main part is serverside, but the
> client-side GUI have to be written in the same language.
>
> This were the requirments for the GUI library:
> - Corss-platform (Win/linux)
> - not just a port, but adjusted to the language
> - mostly written in this language, so you can easy debug the lib,
> this means no wrapper library, just system libraries
> (Though gtk+ on linux would hold as a system library so GtkD for linux
> would be OK, but not on Windows!
> - obviously suitable license for a commercial product
>
> Unfortunately All known GUI-libraries for D fails on this requirments
> So the choice has fallen to C++/Qt

Why is C++/Qt good enough but not D/Qt ?

> I would like to fill this gap and create a really good D GUI library
>
> Any thoughts, comments ... ?
>
>
> °Matthias


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/Jacob Carlborg