On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:26:45 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 04/09/15 3:15 AM, motaito wrote:
Anyway, I hope you will be successful with alphaPhobos. I
think D needs
it, so don't abandon it! I will keep an eye out and check
again in about
a year or so. But for now I have to rethink whether to use D
or not.
Thanks, this is a long term thing. I've been planning this for
~2 years. Previous was Devisualization (Github org of mine). So
a bunch of code has actually originated here. Before that
DOOGLE. Even some of that came from OOGL (ported it from c++ to
D as D_OOGL).
Out of curiosity, why do you think that I wouldn't want a
Phobos
solution? Wouldn't an integrated solution be better? I would
not have to
maintain a build of an external third party project, that may
or may not
be abandoned in the future, not knowing whether there will be
updates,
bugfixes or missing features to be added. It seams like quite
a bit
extra management for my project if I have to keep a third
party project
up to date and may need to adjust my code due to an update in
an
external project.
Because, at best case the graphics could be very ugly and
lacking of features in a GUI toolkit. We're just too far away
from it.
We need to focus on getting the core problems solved. So that
people can flourish with building e.g. GUI toolkits unimpeded
by what we support. Also helps interop between them.
After we have a decent one, then we can consider it for Phobos.
I know the current situation is unfortunate. We've had some
pretty major changes in the last few years and that is ok. I
hope we do get to a point where it is easy to get started in
almost any problem domain :)
Again Thanks for the details. It's very much appreciated. From a
usability stand point for alphaPhobos. Are you more going into
the direction of WPF or QML, using a declaration file or more
along the lines of a QWidget, building the GUI through
instantiating objects inside a D-module?
