On Saturday, 20 October 2018 at 14:24:56 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 12:43 +0000, tide via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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I mean it *may* work, but that isn't the problem if the
developers completely lack support for the platform. I can
download Qt with prebuilt libraries and it works out of the
box with MSVC. There's an obvious difference between the two
developers support. As someone else said GTK look like ass on
Windows, Qt is really the only crossplatform GUI API written
in a native-compile-able language out there that gets most
things right.
I do not disagree, especially about GTK+ not really being
available on Windows and macOS, it is fundamentally a Linux and
UNIX framework – I think we can ignore the fact that macOS is
sort of FreeBSD in this circumstance due to macOS.
I'd agree Qt is a much better cross-platform GUI framework that
GTK+. I've use it with Python very successfully – originally
with PySide, then PyQt, but now back with PySide2. I tried QML
with Go to move to native code from Python, but it didn't
really work for me as yet, though some people gave me a few
tips a few weeks back that I haven't followed up on as yet.
wxWidgets seems still to be going though and wxPython is rising
as a phoenix . I haven't really used them though but maybe the
latest version is worth a whirl.
I guess people doing Qt stuff really do work with C++ if they
don't work with Python? I'd call this an opportunity for D. The
trick has to be to automate the creation of the binding. I have
to admit I do not know what the technique is for PySide2 but
PyQt certainly has a system for generation of the binding.
Of course, Rust https://github.com/rust-qt
As a company that will be hosted in the QT booth at SPS IPC
Drives 2018 in Nuremberg at the end of November, C++ dominates.
We are calling a little D codebase from a QT application, but
just to leverage some legacy old code.
I've used PySide, years ago, but nowadays the performance of the
C++ compilers, and the agility of QT Creator are closing the
bridge for a fast edit/compile/test cycle... the big advantage of
PySide is the tremendous amount of python libraries that you can
use in your application.
Said that, we are using QML, but I don't love it a lot...
- Paolo
