Graphics Library for D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 7 January 2014 at 19:31:38 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> True enough, but for the moment we are trying to keep the scope 
> of the project manageable. If someone wants to add it great! 
> But until then we need to focus on what is required.

Yes, that is true, and then we should define a set of 
applications which it will be suitable for and what the basic 
model is: Should it be immediate mode, retained mode or scene 
graph based?

High level graphic frameworks tend to loose momentum fast, even 
the good ones. Example: SGI's Open Inventor is actually a neat 
scene graph framework, and open source, but dead. SGI's GL 
survived because it was low level and immediate mode.

So, I really think D is better off providing the basics in phobos 
first, staying true to the virtue of providing independent 
modules that are focused:

- OS application abstraction: graphics context, input stream, 
audio playback
- generally useful vector path datatype compatible with 
phobos-collections and SVG
- vector/matrix library with competitive SSE performance and 
features such as clamping