Are there desktop appications being developed in D currently?

[Puming via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 10 August 2014 at 18:40:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 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.

http://xiki.org/ provides a more GUI like terminal that has more 
gui widgets.

xcode's swift language playground also shows a more visiual way 
of doing repl.

>
> 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.

Wow, I didn't know about that. This is another thing that windows 
does better.

>
> 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.

Thanks, I'll try that.