On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 15:15:47 UTC, motaito wrote:
Thanks for the details! I was afraid, of something like this.
To me D doesn't seam very competitive without a complete
toolset :( Given that D has been around for a while now I am
somewhat surprised it's not further along. I know it's a lot of
work and not easy to do but clearly there has been a need for
this for many years now. The resources I found were several
years old (not including that they must have been working on it
for a while before abandoning the project). It will be hard to
compete with something like QT.
I was hoping for a cross platform solution that would deliver
good performance without the complexity of c/c++. But if there
is no built in solution QT seams a better option. I wanted to
avoid QT because of the added complexity and the QT-windows
tend to lag on a windows platform. This may go away with
updates and bugfixes though.
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.
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.
Don't give up yet. I've learned that a D GUI is not so important.
There is a plethora of platforms and devices (mobile phones,
tablets, PCs etc etc), so it's better not to get married to one
particular UI. Keep your program GUI-agnostic and then you can
connect it to any GUI you want. And D is easy to connect to:
C(++), Lua (LuaD) and Python (PyD).
With D you can concentrate on the program, the GUI could be
anything. E.g. look at how the DCD/Dscanner plug-in works with
Textadept and other editors.
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/wiki/IDEs-and-Editors-with-DCD-support
