"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:indrtb$reg$1...@digitalmars.com... > "Daniel Gibson" <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:inddni$kmi$3...@digitalmars.com... >> >> I don't know if wee need yet another GUI library. >> Are you sure Qt and DWT aren't good enough? >> > > AIUI: > > DWT doesn't support D2 (neither does wxD). > > QtD requires a patched DMD, MinGW (which is fucking god-awful), and cmake > (I have to let some variant of "make" touch my computer? Why can't we just > let make die?). And it requires running your code through a preprocessor. > > And none of those have actual API documentation, they just refer to the > C/C++ docs. I use D because I never want to look at another line of C++ as > long as I live. > > Everything else is either non-native or non-cross-platform. > > The state of GUIs in D right now is pretty awful, unfortunately. My > plate's already overpacked (think: teenager at a one-trip buffet), but > maybe I'll see if I can squeeze in enough extra time (hah! there's a > concept I've completely lost all memory of) to try to help out on > something. After all, I *really* want to get around to making my own web > browser (based off either Mozilla or Chromium) - I'm getting really fed up > with the current state of available web browsers. Well, and the web as a > whole (god I fucking hate the web), but one step at a time, I guess). >
Disclaimer: It's not my intent to belittle the hard work the DWT/QtD/wxD/etc developers put into the projects. I certainly appreciate the work and effort that's been put into them. We'd be a lot worse off without it.
