Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:28 -0700
Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 5/20/13 9:49 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
> >
> > Yes, if D aspires to be a systems programming language it can't keep
> > relying on wrappers around C/C++ libraries (especially C++).  In the
> > long term, it should be D all the way down to the OS API.
> 
> You wrote this as if not using c and c++ libraries is a predicate for 
> being a systems language.  It's not.
> 
> What's with the D community's (yes, I'm over generalizing some) 
> not-invented-here syndrome?

Conditioned aversion to C++? (half-serious)

> Avoiding the incredible body of existing 
> code out there that's accumulated over the decades is foolhardy and 
> narrow sighted.  Are all c and c++ libraries great bodies of code, 
> absolutely not.  Is some of the code that predates D worth reusing,
> yup.
> 
> Sigh,
> Brad
>