Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-20 21:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> WPF/XAML is first-party, therefore it's native by definition
> regardless of whether or not it internally hands off to the older UI
> code. Saying WPF isn't native is like saying that Quartz isn't native
> just because it doesn't use...uhh, whatever the UI was called in Mac OS
> 9.
>
> Besides, having access to all of MS's internal code, documents,
> probably even some of the original developers still around, etc., is
> naturally going to change the feasibility in a way that no third party
> toolkit (which is exactly what we're talking about here) is
> realistically going to be able to match.
>
> In other words, despite your antagonism, I was implicitly **agreeing**
> with your assertion that it's one a hell of an undertaking,
> *especially* if you don't make use of native APIs under-the-hood.
>

I completely agree.

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/Jacob Carlborg