On Sunday, 13 March 2016 at 22:26:48 UTC, Saša Janiška wrote:
Hello,
After long pause and trying some other languages, I've decided
to try
(again) with D for writing open-source multi-platform desktop
(GUI)
application.
I've selected three different libraries:
a) dlangui (https://github.com/buggins/dlangui
DlangUI has a nice API design but still need serious design and
art work to catch up with Gtk 3.18 - 2.0 in terms of UI look and
feel. I also find that it just have basic widgets. With Gtk you
have Switch, Stack, Notebook, HeaderBar, and many modern input
widgets for a modern GUI toolkit.
b) GtkD (https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD and
Modern as it has gone through a lot of Widget try and error for
the past few years. Currently looks realy great(on linux) and
more matured. It's almost like Qt built for Linux in terms of
features :) Unfortunately being old and written in C has
introduced some bad API design, inconsistencies and naming
conventions which makes using it for advanced/complex stuff
really tedious. A Projects like elementary OS have built a
framework (granite) on top of Gtk which makes things a bit easy
for their developers(unfortunately it can only be used in Vala
and it's design for their desktop environment (Pantheon).
Recently, Gtk is introducing/advancing CSS integration which
might bring down the complexity and more customization. It
recommended Gtk ATM if you care more about Linux.
c) tkd (https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd)
Tkd works on Windows and Linux in my experience but look like
from the 1980s - 90s. It's Look will definitely not sell when
used for commercial (in 2016). Moreover it lacks some modern
Widgets. However, it has IMO a really nice API design and it's
easy for quick prototyping and it's also more stable.
I run on Linux so i would sadly go for Gtk :( whilst keeping an
eye on DlangUI
