IMHO, the curent D language and standard libraries are fine
enough, and instead of investing time in tweaking them, making
this GUI library and the required tool chain fully operational
on desktop and mobile platform should be the #1 priority.
This is a community-driven OSS project, there is no #1
priority. You may want that, but many others may not care for
it, and you can't make them volunteer to do it.
Indeed.
But that doesn't mean that I'm completely wrong in thinking that
a language which is natively very convenient for web and mobile
development (like Dart) can easily increase its popularity.
Because as long as developing cross-platform connected mobile
apps and backends is significantly EASIER with other languages
(and I'm not only talking about Dart), it will be very hard
for D to somewhat improve its popularity.
D compares more to the C/C++ NDK, which isn't in the same
league of ease of use and integration as you talk about with
Dart. But D could also be used for more lightweight GUI app
development, so we'd like to get it to the usability level of
Dart someday.
That's right, but I still think that D, as a language, has
everything needed to make it the perfect language for mobile,
server and desktop applications.
D is as convenient as a high-level scripting language, and in the
mean time as fast and powerful as a low-level programming
language like C++.
That's the ideal mix for mobile applications. And nowadays MANY
programmers are developing connected and mobile applications.
And this is actually the #1 reason why I can't convince ANY of
the developers I know to even try the language...
Are you talking about the ease of GUI development or mobile or
both holding D back? I agree that D has neglected mobile, see
my recent thread:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
+1
