On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 05:56:51 UTC, DanielG wrote:
There are far too many options for Windows GUI programming, so
we probably need a bit more information about any constraints
that are important to you.
For example:
- do you specifically want something that works well with D? or
are you open to other languages?
- are you just wanting to learn desktop programming in general?
(Like the concepts involved) Or do you have a specific thing
you want to create?
I would personally suggest Delphi to somebody who wants to
write Windows desktop apps and learn about event-driven
development, howeverrr the language (Object Pascal) is
insufferably archaic compared to something like D. But it is
definitely the cleanest, least-overwhelming method of writing
native Win32 applications for somebody with no prior experience.
Then there's all the modern Microsoft stuff
(WPF/XAML/WinRT/etc), but you pretty much have to use either
.NET or C++ for that.
I have a specific thing I want to create and I could do it in a
console but it'd be very clunky to use, but at the moment I need
to learn the basic stuff for this. I'd like to use D as I've
grown quite fond of it after my earlier attempts at first Perl,
then Python, C++ and now D for the past year and a half. For some
reason D feels the most... homey and comfortable of the languages
I've tried.
