Vision for the first semester of 2016

[JohnCK via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 06:39:54 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> 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
>
> [snip]
>
>> 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
> ...
> 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.


Well, I think the question is: IDE is a main thing today? If you 
take the languages that emerged along the years, some of them are 
backed most on web toolkit/Internet.

Please don't get me wrong and I'm not saying this is NOT 
important. But today I think perhaps this kind of thing is 
turning into a niche.

I think vibe.d or whatever web toolkit should get more attention.

JohnCK.