The Current Status of DQt

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On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 13:32:13 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
> With a friend we created the DQuick project cause of our major 
> interest of the QtQuick (also called QML) part of Qt framework 
> and also for the reason you invoke. For us phobos already aim 
> to implement same things than QtCore, and wrapping primitive 
> types of Qt seems hard and will introduce design constraint and 
> poor performances. It's certainly bad for a longterm vision.
>
> IMO DQt will be interesting for those looking for a stable GUI 
> library based on widget essentially.
> DQuick have no chance to be usable in production before years 
> if we continue to develop it.
> We are back after a long break, it's really hard to stay 
> motivated cause we have some difficulties with points aren't 
> fixed in D, mainly GC issues, signals,... My friend just find 
> get the property binding working in D code, but he doesn't like 
> his code :-).
>
> I see DQt/gtkD and DQuick as complementary projects. I hope we 
> will capable to provide good enough GUI libraries to D 
> community shortly.

Best of luck to you guys. I encourage as many people as possible 
to give writing D GUI libraries a go, and perhaps we can all 
learn from each other.