wanting to try a GUI toolkit: needing some advice on which one to choose

[someone]

On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 10:11:25 UTC, evilrat wrote:

> Would like to pay for something that's not exists where there 
> is already like 10 "good enough"(tm) alternatives? How much 
> people actually use D and willing to pay for that?

> Another issue is that these hobby projects are not state of the 
> art solutions, they stuck in early 90's (ok, maybe late 90's), 
> where the rest of the world using different architectures and 
> approaches that was evolved several times from then.
> And yet people who asks for UI libraries goes like "nah, no 
> fancy schmancy CSS, and no markup. gimme good ol' 
> programmatical approach" or "bloat bloat bloat, no thanks"

Regarding what you say on the state-of-the-art GUI/toolkits I 
should clarify that I am not against "modern" UI development. 
Everyone should work/code as they like and I am no-one to say the 
contrary. What I am against to is the idea of **unifying** the 
UIs for desktop and mobile resulting in sub-par experience for 
both of them -which is what happened.

> That's the chicken-egg problem - no funding because no decent 
> solutions, no decent solutions because such enormous effort 
> requires compensation.

eg: postgreSQL is not on the edge of the state-of-the-art right 
now but it is closing the gap more than ever to the point that 
when there have to be a choice made on merits and not politicals 
it is making a dent in Oracle which is the 800-pound gorilla in 
this category -even against Microsoft's SQL Server which drives a 
lot of things in the enterprise/financial world.

eg: qGIS is another project widely used, and I mean **really** 
widely used for big projects not hobby projects; think city 
plans, dams, and the like -every day real world cases not fuss.

I speak of these because it is what I know of, there should be 
some more, but clearly, this is not the rule, this is the 
exception -and also have in mind that these two projects don't 
get indirectly managed by big corporations alla-linux these days.