Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:15 -0700, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-20 22:58, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
>> Depends on the system, in WPF the XAML is encoded into a binary form of
>> XML and then the objects are deserialized at runtime. Note that given
>> D's CTFE I would NOT choose this path for any D UI toolkit. D is perfect
>> for a system where you use markup to declare your UI in a CTFE manner
>> and then have the compiler do the dirty work of actually generating the
>> code. Fast AND Simple, Go D!
>
> Surely we want to have both. I'm thinking when you're developing you  
> don't want to recompile you're application if you can avoid it just when  
> the GUI is changed.
>

Well, that depends, if it comes down to a trade off between program  
execution speed vs. compile speed, i'll pick program execution speed.  
Right now, I know of no UI toolkit that lets you redesign without  
recompiling, so i'd say that should be a secondary priority.

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Adam Wilson
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