OpenWL/DL - two foundation libraries for building a cross-platform GUI with non-C++ languages

[DanielG]

These aren't written in D, but they are *for* D (or any other 
non-C++ language in need of its own canonical, language-native 
GUI). They export a C API for maximum ease of use.

OpenWL[1] - cross-platform top-level windowing library, with 
native menus, events, clipboard/DnD.

OpenDL[2] - cross-platform drawing library (with 
Quartz2D/CoreText-compatible API), built on the native APIs for 
each platform: Quartz2D/CoreText for Mac, Direct2D/DirectWrite 
for Windows, and GTK/Pango for Linux.

There is still plenty of work to be done on these, but they're 
ready to make public and start getting some feedback / bug 
reports / etc.

Right now only Windows/Mac/Linux are (equally!) tested/supported, 
and I'll have to focus on those for the time being to really 
polish these libraries, but I fully intend to port them to more 
niche platforms in the future.

Why? I know there are some people who want to start GUI projects 
with their language of choice (D/Nim/Haskell/Rust/etc), but 
trying to lay the foundation to abstract away platform 
differences is a big, annoying detour for people who just want to 
get started. So I did all that annoying work because I'm a weird 
dude and find this kind of thing enjoyable ... to an extent :)

You can ask any questions here, or on the Gitter[3] I've created 
for both projects:

[1] https://github.com/dewf/openwl
[2] https://github.com/dewf/opendl
[3] 
https://gitter.im/GUImakers/OpenWL-DL?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link