Are there desktop appications being developed in D currently?

Puming via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 8 21:02:04 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 01:26:05 UTC, ed wrote:
> 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

Thanks, I could recall the discussion, but was not able to find 
it. Definitely gonna look at it :-)





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