Vision for the first semester of 2016

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:21:51 UTC, 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

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> 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.

I truly doubt that. It would be truly amazing if that were to 
occur but history has proven otherwise. The sentiment was 
expressed so many times that Walter was finally moved to sanction 
DWT as the official GUI for D in 2006. Even a newsgroup was made 
for it. It's ten years later. DWT anyone?

Aurora was a recent attempt that was shelved for the sole 
author's personal reasons. Result?

Sadly, dlangui/dlangide is no different. It has one developer. If 
that individual gets discouraged, like so many others have so 
far, what becomes of it?

Until members of the community starts combining efforts and 
working together to improve the situation, it will not improve. 
You have Adam working on working on simpledisplay, Mike working 
on Derelict, Felix working on three-d, Vladimir working on 
ae-graphics, Martin on freeimage, Vadim on dlangui/dlangide and 
who knows what else is out there in the wood works. All of this 
is admirable and appreciated but imagine what would be possible 
if these minds teamed up, mapped out a graphic solution for the 
language and united efforts in implementing it!

I'm convinced that without such a deliberate effort, this 
situation will not change for years to come. Even if a particular 
library is dubbed "The One." Like I've said earlier, that was 
already done ten years ago.