Vision for the first semester of 2016

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 25/01/16 6:47 PM, Puming wrote:
> On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:49:56 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 25/01/16 4:21 PM, Puming wrote:
>>> On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:37:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Hot off the press! http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei
>>>
>>> For PRs, I suggest the goal to be number of PRs MERGED instead of
>>> created. That may provide the core team a subconsious incentive to look
>>> at long pending PRs and hit a good cycle.
>>>
>>> For tooling, I suggest a look at GUI/IDEs, now that dlangui/dlangide
>>> seems a good candidate(native D, crossplatform). A good official
>>> supported GUI library will attract many people.
>>
>> That won't be happening anytime soon.
>> Until we have image and windowing in Phobos (I'm working on both)
>> there is no way a GUI toolkit is going in. And from what I know there
>> will be a LOT of work to update it.
>
> Well I'm not saying that a GUI toolkit should go into Phobos.
> I'd rather it stand alone, while taking some official support, say, link
> in D frontpage(like visualD).

I want us to hold off on that as well.
I want people to really have a go with making GUI toolkits in D without 
the worry about how to do the cross platformy technical things.

We just don't know what could be done yet and I'm looking forward to 
finding out.