Are there desktop appications being developed in D currently?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 14:28:33 UTC, Puming wrote:
> What do you mean by 'boring'? I think a shell in D would be 
> awesome.

tbh I think shells are a bit boring too, but like you said in the 
other message, they are two different things.

But a terminal emulator isn't much of a gui because all it 
displays is text (and mine actually can display pictures too) - 
no buttons, text areas, checkboxes, etc. like typically comes to 
mind when you think of a desktop gui app.

I've been slowly writing a miniature gui widget library too, with 
the goal of zero dependencies and < 300kb compiled executables... 
but I just haven't had the time. Whenever I need a quick gui for 
a personal project I've actually been outputting html or 
something and reading the response with my cgi.d. html forms 
cover like 95% of my use cases.

> 5. MVC style input/output. The out put of commands can be 
> formated with a template (with color and indentations, even 
> markdown support). traditional shell outputs are a mess.

I like what Windows Powershell does - it talks in objects which 
can be formatted to string or passed to other commands that 
understand them.

For a while, I was toying with doing that in D too. I don't 
remember where I put the file (a super-simplified version is in 
my book somewhere though)... but the shell commands were actually 
just D functions that return strongly typed stuff. When composing 
them, it calls the function directly and communicating with 
external commands  it does some simple toString serialization and 
deserialization so that works too.

But I haven't finished it in great part because I find regular 
old bash to work well enough for me.

> 7. autocomplete and auto style. write colorful code in the 
> repl. Vi/emacs support of inline editing is also a plus.

gnu readline which bash uses allows the editing and autocomplete 
which is cool.