Linked by Quentin Hartman on Mon 14th Jul 2008 08:46 UTC, submitted by makkus
At last week's Guadec meeting, Kristian Rietveld delivered the GTK+ "state of the union" report. GTK+ is the multi-platform toolkit behind a number of popular applications and, perhaps most well known, the Gnome Desktop environment for Linux. Read the full report here.
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2005-08-31
I think the problem with D is the inclusion of pointer and this will lead to the same type of problem we saw in C++. (personal opinion)
1. D can be directly link to C. So why supporting pointers? If you absolutely need it, where do you need it for GUI programming anyway, you just have to make a C function
2. Programmers will code in D like they did in C. Full of stucts, pointers.
The result will be applications that are no more easier to debug, still suffering from buffer overflow and security holes.
I would probably choose Obj-C, but I don't have an idea if Apple have patent or IP on it. But if there's a pointerless D, I'll probably take this one.