On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 01:32:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 10/20/18 6:28 AM, Gregor Mückl wrote:
Even though web and mobile UIs seem to be the rage at the
moment, I believe a solid support for desktop UIs is very
important for a general purpose language, if it wants to be
successful in the market.
I think that may be doubly true in the case of D, given D's
focus on efficiency. HTML-based interfaces (whether web or app)
are notoriously rife with inefficiencies: That's likely to be a
major turn-off for exactly the very same audiences that D would
appeal to most.
While talking about bindings, do not forget Delphi. It has still
a good eco system. Combining Delphi's advanced Runtime reflection
capabilities with D's advanced compile reflection capabilities
opens this eco system.
I created a proof of concept and the results were really
promising. Using Delphi components is very easy and the wrapper
code on D side is very thin.
Even clicking together a Firemonkey ui in Delphi and writing all
code in D works fine.
Delphi is available for windows, Mac os, Android and IPhone.
Linux support is somehow planned. It is free for personal use.
See an example here
https://github.com/andre2007/delta-fmx-10-2-1/blob/master/examples/gui1/source/app.d
Due to very limited time resources I have no time to work on this
specific topic at the moment but everyone is free to use these
base research results.
Side remark: Lazarus (free pascal) is planning to add the same
advanced Runtime reflection capabilities as Delphi.
Kind regards
Andre
