David Nielsen wrote: > tor, 20 07 2006 kl. 23:24 +0100, skrev Jamie McCracken: > >> The D language offers the best of all worlds IMO *without* compromising >> on speed, resource usage or bloat. It would be madness to use a VM instead! >> >> (of course its not as integrated into Gnome yet and lacks an IDE but if >> someone puts the work in you will have a killer platform than no VM >> based platform can match) > > ... in about 10 years, once D exits beta and someone sits down to write > a proper IDE, the bindings, etc..
D is already stable enough - yes its officially still in beta but nothing has changed there and people are building apps with it. Mono is here now, it has basically all > the tools we want, the Mono maintainers care about GNOME and as an added > bonus we get to market GNOME to all the college students who are > currently being trained with .NET in mind. All too true - its why we need volunteers to beef up D's offering. We do have GTK bindings though (http://dui.sourceforge.net/) > > Aside such things as the existence of tons of books, documentation, > classes and existing programmers for .NET, I agree D is a shoe in.. > For Gnome to be the best desktop it needs the best technology and that is arguably the D language. On a technical basis it is currently unbeatable (I think!) > I have confidence in Miguels team, I'm sure they'll optimize the crap > out that sucker if we hit serious problems providing GNOME using Mono. As a c# programmer myself (asp.net) I know how hard that is. If they can make mono anywhere near as good as D then he will have converted me! -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
