Progress on Adam Wilson's Graphics API?

[Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 10:29:44 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 30/05/2015 10:28 p.m., Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> On Saturday, 3 May 2014 at 09:56:38 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>>> Is there any progress on the graphics API Adam Wilson is 
>>> working on?
>>
>> Adam Wilson's DConf '14 talk [1] was an interesting and 
>> promising one.
>> After that there were some commits a month later, but nothing 
>> after
>> that. I haven't seen discussions or other activity on the 
>> graphics front
>> since. Now another DConf has passed, and I wonder what 
>> happened to
>> Aurora? Were there technical reasons that it hasn't progressed 
>> much
>> further, and if so, can these be addressed?
>>
>> [1] https://youtu.be/PRbK7jk0jrk
>
> To my knowledge, it was just too large of a project so was 
> abandoned.

But was it a conscious decision to drop it, or did it just die? 
Would different design decisions have made a difference? What are 
the lessons that can be learned from Aurora for any future 
graphics initiatives?