GUI library for D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Apr 5 06:32:51 PDT 2011


On 2011-04-05 15:25, Matthias Pleh wrote:
> Am 05.04.2011 15:06, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
>> On 2011-04-05 13:08, Matthias Pleh wrote:
>>> So I think for short or middle term such solution like gtkD, QtD, DWT
>>> are good, but for the long term the D community needs a D GUI library
>>> completly written in D.
>>>
>>> Just my thoughts
>>> °Matthias
>>>
>>
>> You do know that DWT is completely written in D? Don't you think we can
>> create an environment for creating D GUI applications using DWT?
>>
>
> Yes, that would be an option. I have thought several times about that.
> But I think, to get really acceptet by a wide range of developers, the
> library must be adjusted, to suit better the D coding style. This way we
> could get the whole power of D. But this also means that you get more
> and more away from the java path and sometime you are not able any more
> to merge changes in the java path to D.
> So this means, this would really be a fork, not just a port.
> (I hope, I have explained it correctly in my broken english, and I hope
> it sound not rude :|
>
>
> °Matthias

I see what you mean and I'm not seeing it as rude. It's hard to find a 
balance where it's still possible to merge future versions and taking 
full advantage of D.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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