Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-01-16 22:02, Kiith-Sa wrote: >> A: >> 1 - >> I think we're getting close to that point. I do encounter compiler bugs >> from time to time, but the frequency is rapidly decreasing with the recent >> releases. We already have the "Easier to code" and "Decent performance" >> parts, but there's a lot of room to improve (standard build system, package >> manager, better Phobos, better GC or better noGC options). >> >> 2 - >> This is a problem and it probably will continue to be so for some time. >> Native D GUI framework of size of GTK/Qt is infeasible. >> AFAIK GtkD is usable now, but not sure how D-like its API is, probably >> not much? > > DWT is a GUI library completely written in D: > > http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt >
DWT is a plain rewrite of SWT. When writing D, I want to write D, not Java. I'd even prefer a C toolkit with a D-style wrapper to that. I do think that D is an awesome language to build a GUI toolkit from ground up - it's just unlikely to happen soon because of the effort involved.