I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D.
+1 to that. But I think using using SWT as inspiration for a GUI library may not be the best possible choice. I would like to see an API which uses D well. Small things like using properties instead of getters and setters come to the mind first. I haven't looked at the DWT source code but I suspect it may suffer from some of the same short comings as SWT.
I have been looking for a good cross platform GUI library but the choices available so far (Qt, wxWidgets, GTK+) all come from the C++ world (where garbage collection is almost absent) thus entangling memory management issues with the GUI API and its architecture in general.
I would love to hear some recommendations on terse and powerful GUI libraries even if they are not cross platform. I'd seriously consider contributing to such a project.
On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 19:54:56 UTC, Mr. Anonymous wrote:
Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. What do you think?
