On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 06:18:16 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 09/09/13 21:26, Flamaros wrote:
Personally I think that phobos contains some parts that are in
Qt base, so a
wrapper isn't a perfect solution for D. It's certainly the
fastest way to extend
the D framework and add a GUI library, but Qt phylosophy
doesn't match perfectly
with D. Just take a look to moc, in D it's possible and
preferable to do without
it.
That why we started DQuick to create a complete adaption of
QtQuick to D, this
is much hard to do but DQuick has the potential to be much
more suitable for D.
I've just had a read through your DQuick announcement thread.
It looks like a really nice project -- I wish you a lot of
success with this.
Now, that said, while Qt may have some issues with respect to
D, supporting it isn't just a matter of wanting a GUI solution.
It's not just a graphical toolkit -- it's THE most important
cross-platform toolkit, and has been chosen as a first-class
SDK component by various platforms. I'd say that makes good
and up-to-date QtD bindings a very important strategic goal.
All parts of Qt that are non about GUI, like strings, io,
network, regexp,... are or certainly will be in phobos. So for D
applications started from ground I don't really see the benefits.
But if D is compatible with Qt/C++ existing code, it will be
great win. In this case QtD is clearly a strategic goal.
