The first official release of QtD, D bindings for the Qt application framework, has been released. It requires Tango, apparently builds only on Linux (unless I’m misunderstanding what I’m reading) and is released under version 3 of the GPL. If any of that is up your alley, you should hit the QtD googlecode page for more details.
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- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012
Hey!
Sounds great.. just heard about that port minutes ago and started googling
Really hope this will come to a point ^^ Never did any serious programming in D but I’m interested in an alternative to C++
Still I’ve got one question: can some assumptions already be made about the performance? Have you maybe even tested it? In general I have no idea yet how the performance of D compares to C++ so it would be great to know
Thanks!
I’ve not done any performance comparisons of D myself. But you can find some in the D newsgroups (primarily, digitalmars.D). From what I’ve seen, D lags behind C and C++ in some areas (really badly in a few) and is competitive in others. The GC is still immature and can be a limiting factor in specific cases, but it’s possible to turn it off when you need to. You will also get different results with different compiler implementations/backends.
Personally, I’ve not encountered any problem cases with D performance in my usage. Granted, I’m not doing any major projects with it atm. But there are several satisfied users out there.
GPL ?!
I’m very enthusiastic about D. I never could learn C++ (life is short, C++ sucks, etc.).
We need to be able to build commercial software with D. We know what the GPL did for Linux – a platform no one wants to write software for (except systems stuff and web stuff). A commercial backwater.
I sure hope this changes.