On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 22:20:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 19:28:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2015
They list D as useful for web development and embedded, but not
desktop apps... And they list Rust was useful for desktop apps
and web development. Something's fishy here.
I don't really disagree about D not being so useful for desktop
apps, thanks to the GUI situation.
There's no up-to-date Qt bindings (excluding a Qml loader), GTK-D
exists but GTK had some serious issues when I last tried it
(especially on Mac), and I really do not like the look and feel
of Swing. There are some other libraries, but most I've looked at
are not cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux), or are not
maintained. I am intending to try my luck at creating something
similar to Xamarin Forms with Qt being the initial backend, but
we'll see how that goes. Besides the GUI situation, D would of
course be nice for desktop apps. Until then, not so much.
