GUI program on Mac OS in D?

[mrphobby]

On Thursday, 14 December 2017 at 14:07:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> I was playing with this myself based on Jacob's code and made 
> it look like this:
>
> extern (Objective-C) interface ViewController : 
> NSViewController {
>         extern (C)
>         @ObjCMethodOverride("loadView")
>         static void loadView(ViewController self, SEL sel) {
>                 printf("loadView\n");
>         }
>
>         extern (C)
>         @ObjCMethodOverride("viewDidLoad")
>         static void viewDidLoad(ViewController self, SEL sel) {
>                 printf("viewDidLoad\n");
>         }
>
>         ViewController init() @selector("init");
>         mixin RegisterObjCClass;
> }
>
>
>
> so the mixin does some registering based on the method override 
> attrs. It is still static with self cuz I actually felt hiding 
> that made things a bit worse (inheritance wouldn't work like 
> you expect), but most the registration stuff is now pulled from 
> the attribute metadata.
>
>
> Of course, my goal here isn't actually to do all of obj-c... 
> just enough to port my simpledisplay.d. So I'm not sure if I'll 
> make this public yet or just leave it as private and/or 
> undocumented inside my library file.

This looks pretty awesome and very much like something I was 
looking for. Would really appreciate if you could share your 
work. Otherwise I'll have to roll up my sleeves and try hacking 
it on my own :)

Thanks for sharing your ideas!