Graphics Library for D

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:50:48 -0800, FreeSlave <freeslave93 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I'm not familiar with Cinder library yet (seems it does not support  
> Linux, so it's not very interesting for me), but I suppose graphics  
> library should provide at least two approaches to build graphic  
> applications. The first one is something that SDL and SFML offer: user  
> has to manually write cycle loop for event handling. The second one is  
> more complicated: event loop is encapsulated by some Application class  
> which automatically dispatches events to gui elements and provide  
> signal-slot system to ease creation of application logic (like Qt  
> library does). The second approach implementation may be built on the  
> first one, but it should not be the only. Sometimes the first approach  
> is more easy and it has no overhead of all these high-level gui  
> abstractions.

I tend to agree that we need both, but in terms of writing API simplicity  
the second option is actually better. The first one will require some  
interesting and probably not idiomatic...

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Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator