PureBasic Forums - English

I'm still a newbie programmer and I am looking at some garbage-collected languages that are suited for writing desktop GUI applications. The language must be available on Windows, OSX, and Linux. I say "garbage collected" instead of high level since a language like D isn't quite a high level (IMO) but is garbage collected, compiles to native code, and gives near C++ performance. However, the most developed GUI toolkit for D is DWT, which is a port of SWT. The few SWT apps I have used look ugly on every platform. If D had a Qt binding that would be great, but the only thing I could find was QtD which seems to be a dead project.

Languages I am aware of:
Java
Python
D

I'd rather not use C# with Mono and syntax-wise I prefer languages similar to C/C++.

Are there any others, and what would you suggest?

Reven John wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:41 amAn undergraduate who is pursuing his diploma in computer science from Stephans Education.

Hmm.

BarryG wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:52 am

Reven John wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:41 amAn undergraduate who is pursuing his diploma in computer science from Stephans Education.

Hmm.

"Hmm" indeed... our guy John here is looking mighty sussy.

It looks like another one of the more sophisticated spammers that includes tidbits of legitimate-seeming content (usually lifted from elsewhere or generated with some sort of NLP solution) interspersed with garbage. This particular post of theirs for example has been completely lifted from a ~10 yrs old StackOverflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/119 ... plications.

@mods it's nuking time

Reven John is now blocked. I leave this thread here as an example of clever detective work by yuki.

Yes I was watching too I almost nuked him but thought I'd wait a d see.

He did ask us how to collect garbage

skywalk wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 1:44 am He did ask us how to collect garbage

Yep

Kiffi wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 3:16 pmReven John is now blocked.

Just blocked? Shouldn't his account here be deleted for spamming? Or will that remove his posts (that you said to keep)?

BarryG wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:41 amJust blocked? Shouldn't his account here be deleted for spamming? Or will that remove his posts (that you said to keep)?

You are right. There is also a way to delete the user but keep their posts. Reven John is now history.

So I was a witness while history was being made. Awesome!