WildCAD - a simple 2D drawing application

[Ferhat Kurtulmuş]

On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 14:36:54 UTC, Johann Lermer 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce a little project of mine that started some 
> years ago as a C++ application and which I finally managed to 
> port to D. It's called WildCAD and it's a simple 2D drawing 
> program (you know - lines, circles and so on). It uses a 
> command line interface inspired by AutoCAD and features a very 
> immature DXF im- and export.
>
> The application uses a DIY widget set (which comes as a sub 
> project) called WildWidgets. Both can be found at 
> https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildcad.git and 
> https://gitlab.com/elvin.eu/wildwidgets.git
>
> Currently both are restricted to DMD and Linux/X11 only. Sorry 
> for that. On the plus side just very limited dependencies are 
> needed - mostly X11, Cairo and Cups. It's still very rough and 
> using it can be a bit of a challenge.
>
> Any feedback or help is appreciated ;-)

this reminded me of KediCAD[1]. The author used the Gambas 
programming language. A long time ago, I chatted with the author, 
and he was thinking of an alternative language for development. I 
knew nothing about d at that time. I have just noticed that the 
author closed the source, or I failed to find it. I think D has 
great potential for creating CAD software. I will give it a try, 
but I wish it would use dub as a build system.

1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/parduscad/