On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:25:10 -0500, Fab <fab-cod...@web.de> wrote:
Dear D community,
My name is Fabian and I used to code C++ and Delphi. But a few month ago
I've
got a book about D as a present. All in all D sounds very interesting
... but
- the "big" but - is D still alive?
Very much so. D2 is being actively developed. D1 is not, but Tango is
being actively developed (which works with D1).
Are there usable and stable GUI-Toolkits which are actually under
development?
I don't have personal experience with any of the current GUI projects, but
from what I've read, many of them are usable. Whether they are actively
developed, I'm not sure.
See many of them here: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries
Are there any continued database projects?
AFAIK, there is very little DB support (which will definitely need to be
addressed before D is considered a complete language) for D2. However,
you *always* have support via C bindings. D has zero-overhead binding to
C functions, all you need to do is port the declarations to D.
If you are using D1, there are several projects, I don't think many of
them are up to date:
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DatabaseBindings
So - is there any reason to change to D? I would ... I really would
change if
there were more points than a nice language. I don't buy a good car if
it's to
expensive - so: is D as precious as its pretend to be?
I will warn you, once you start using D, you will not want to use
something else. I cringe every day when I have to use PHP for work.
I would say it is not ready for prime-time yet. It has a way to go, but
some have managed to build pretty impressive applications from it. So it
would depend on your application.
-Steve
