On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:56 AM Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Background: I chose to rewrite a Python/PySide2/Qt application in > X/GTK+. After much dithering I was pushed to Rust/gtk-rs/GTK+ and set > to it. Then I decided to do D/GtkD/GTK+ as well. > > Totally unscientific, biased, and indeed prejudiced result is that D is > a nicer programming language to work with than Rust for doing GTK+ > related UIs. > > BUT… > > Now I have to add the networking. > > GTK+ (and therefore both gtk-rs and GtkD) has APIs for all the socket > stuff so as to be harmonious with the Glib/GIO/GTK way of the world. > The Big Question™ is how to add monitoring a read socket stream in the > event loop. > > Qt just does it automatically as far as I can tell, but GTK+ appears > not to. Which is totally bizarre. > > Rust now has async/await and futures such that you can create something > to put on the GTK+ event loop very easily. It also has very nice tools > for doing "reactive programming" using classic programming constructs > that turn into event loop manangement with futures. > > Does D have anything similar or has it missed the "programming with > event loops" boat. Currently I am having a hard time finding ways of > doing what is easy with Rust/gtk-rs/GTK+ using D/GtkD/GTK+ and this is > rather frustrating given how much nicer D is for working with GTK+ than > Rust is. > > > -- > Russel. > =========================================== > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk >
D does not have any builtin async/await but you can use libraries https://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-core https://code.dlang.org/packages/dawait
