I've been using a recent version of D2 along with gtkD and Code::Blocks to redo a quite complicated Windows GUI program I wrote back in the mid 90s with the changes I've though of since then, in an Ubuntu environment.

This combination has definitely made me highly productive. D is a joy to use, and so easy to read when I compare it with the numerous GTK+ examples I've had to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter - how did I use it all those years?).

Thanks Walter et al.

Steve

What kind of app? It would be cool if you would write a blog post
about your experience (if you have the free time & would like to do
that). :)

On 9/5/11 14:38 EDT, Steve Teale wrote:
> I've been using a recent version of D2 along with gtkD and Code::Blocks to
> redo a quite complicated Windows GUI program I wrote back in the mid 90s with
> the changes I've though of since then, in an Ubuntu environment.
>
> This combination has definitely made me highly productive. D is a joy to use,
> and so easy to read when I compare it with the numerous GTK+ examples I've had
> to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter - how
> did I use it all those years?).
>
> Thanks Walter et al.
>
> Steve

That's great to know particularly since it comes after a healthy does of scrutiny and skepticism. Thanks!

Andrei

On 9/5/11 17:16 EDT, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/5/11 14:38 EDT, Steve Teale wrote:
>> I've been using a recent version of D2 along with gtkD and
>> Code::Blocks to
>> redo a quite complicated Windows GUI program I wrote back in the mid
>> 90s with
>> the changes I've though of since then, in an Ubuntu environment.
>>
>> This combination has definitely made me highly productive. D is a joy
>> to use,
>> and so easy to read when I compare it with the numerous GTK+ examples
>> I've had
>> to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter
>> - how
>> did I use it all those years?).
>>
>> Thanks Walter et al.
>>
>> Steve
>
> That's great to know particularly since it comes after a healthy does of
> scrutiny and skepticism. Thanks!
>
> Andrei

s/does/dose/

Andrei

Steve Teale Wrote:

> to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter - how did I use it all those years?).

Well, C++ is horrid, but you can do thing with it in a reasonable time frame if you're patient enough to deal with it, because it has various libraries, which you can use with variable success.

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:38:01 +0000, Steve Teale wrote:

> I've been using a recent version of D2 along with gtkD and Code::Blocks to redo a quite complicated Windows GUI program I wrote back in the mid 90s with the changes I've though of since then, in an Ubuntu environment.
> 
> This combination has definitely made me highly productive. D is a joy to use, and so easy to read when I compare it with the numerous GTK+ examples I've had to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter - how did I use it all those years?).
> 
> Thanks Walter et al.
> 
> Steve

Indeed, D + GtkD is real fun, never enjoyed gtk so much. But you can't forget about GtkD team. Thanks to them we got one solid GUI library :)

On 9/5/2011 11:38 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
> I've been using a recent version of D2 along with gtkD and Code::Blocks to
> redo a quite complicated Windows GUI program I wrote back in the mid 90s with
> the changes I've though of since then, in an Ubuntu environment.
>
> This combination has definitely made me highly productive. D is a joy to use,
> and so easy to read when I compare it with the numerous GTK+ examples I've had
> to consult written in Python, PHP, C, and C++ (particularly the latter - how
> did I use it all those years?).
>
> Thanks Walter et al.

Coming from you, this means a lot. Thanks for posting.

(For those that don't know, Steve used to work with me at Zortech and did a lot of engineering work for the C++ stuff. He's an early adopter; if incremental numbers were handed out to C++ programmers, Steve would have a very coveted low number!)

On 9/6/2011 5:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> (For those that don't know, Steve used to work with me at Zortech and did a lot
> of engineering work for the C++ stuff. He's an early adopter; if incremental
> numbers were handed out to C++ programmers, Steve would have a very coveted low
> number!)

For example, Steve wrote the iostreams library for Zortech C++ (you'll still find his name on them in the Digital Mars C++ library source), and he even wrote a book on iostreams:

C++ IOStreams Handbook

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201596415/classicempire