Are there desktop appications being developed in D currently?

ed via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 8 18:26:04 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 00:34:43 UTC, Puming wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bumped into a blog talking about building a (toy) browser 
> engine in Rust:
>
> (http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2014/08/08/toy-layout-engine-1.html)
>
> In the blog I found that the OP is in the mozilla servo team 
> building a parallel browser for mozilla. The servo is hosted on 
> github here:
>
> (https://github.com/servo)
>
> Yes, rust is a more infantile language compared to D, but 
> people are already using them to create complicate applications 
> like browser! This kind of projects would become a huge drive 
> force to strengthen best practices in the language/lib design 
> and attract newcomers.
>
> When I learned about Clojure, and found that an editor/ide 
> [Light Table](http://lighttable.com) was written entirely by 
> Clojure(script), was really intrigged. [Atom](http://atom.io) 
> is written in nodejs/coffeescript.
>
> So I wonder, is there similar projects in D that I can take 
> part, learn and enjoy?
>
> I see the current hotspot of D are compilers、libs、http-server 
> and game area, but haven't encountered an application project 
> such as an editor, music player, etc.

Manu started a project a while back which you may be interested 
in looking at.

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.470.1386845003.3242.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com

https://github.com/FeedBackDevs/feedback


Cheers,
ed


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