[REBOL] Re: alambik.com
From: garymiller:starband at: 18-Jul-2002 13:00
>> My point is that Rebol/View has broad platform support
>> with a fast and fairly pleasing (and if not, we can
>> make our own) GUI. I think it would be great to make
>> us able to call DirectX or Quartz or ActiveX or
>> what-have-you, but i don't want to see it built in,
>> per se, as I think that would turn Rebol into bloatware.
>> We already have enough bloatware.
Maybe they need two versions then. The average programmer
is not up to the task of calling Direct X directly to just
write an application that performs resonably. Companies
don't like to write applications in languages that eat up
10 times more cpu resources than compiled code.
What attracts me to Rebol is the productivity benefits of
having to write and maintain less code.
If I have to write my own GUI framework in Direct X DLL
calls to get reasonable performance and a good look and
feel, it will have to be relegated to just writing quick
and dirty console mode utilities.
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