On 2018-10-21 19:29, Russel Winder wrote:
But who apart from Eclipse and JetBrains uses Java for desktop GUI applications?
There's probably a ton of business/enterprise applications that are written in Java.
But I don't care for that, that's why I'm using D :)
I do not have Eclipse to check, but the JetBrains IDEs (at least CLion, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, and PyCharm) ship Swing, SWT, and JavaFX in their systems.
Not sure what you mean with "ship" here. Swing and JavaFX are shipped with Java.
Eclipse itself is built using SWT.
Swing, and I believe SWT, have somewhat old architectures for GUI frameworks where GTK+, Qt, and wxWidgets have moved on. But this may just be opinion rather than agreed "fact".
I haven't use these other frameworks so I don't know what's consider old architecture and modern architecture.
Apart from GtkD on GTK+ systems
Linux doesn't have a "native" GUI in the same sense as macOS and Windows. , and dqml, QtE5, qtD, and dqt on Qt,
and wxD on wxWidgets. Qt and wxWidgets pride themselves on being able to use native frameworks underneath – I have no personal evidence as I only use GNOME, I am not a good data point.
Qt is not native, at least not on macOS. Are any of the Qt D bindings actually useful? wxD seems very old, D1 old, is that useable?
When I said that DWT is basically the only native D toolkit, I failed to also include: up to date (as in working with the latest compiler), working and cross-platform.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
