Current state of GUI's

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/09/15 11:43 AM, motaito wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 19:13:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> It links now when I manged to install all the dependencies, but it
>> doesn't run :(. Segfaults for some reason, I haven't looked in to it.
>
> Bummer... However, I appreciate that you are giving it a shot!
>
> But you see my point. An out of the box solution like QT would be worth
> gold. That's the one thing Microsoft got right. They have awesome
> developer tools. Or in the words of Steve Ballmer: "Developers!
> Developers! Developers!" :)
>
> Instead of loosing time you could just focus on building some software.
> Imagine D would have a kick ass IDE like visual studio but cross
> platform like QT. Productivity, efficiency and performance in one. Too
> bad D doesn't have the option for paid developers to create something
> like this. It's just too much work for your spare time. So, it's
> unlikely to happen any time soon :(
>
> Still, I very much appreciate people like Rikki Cattermole who builds a
> base to work of for others. The problem is for a few individuals that
> just takes a long time to complete.

I would very much appreciate people helping out.
E.g. Contributing manipulation functions, image loader / exporter.

Most importantly unittests. Fix bugs.
I'll most likely do the PNG test case infrastructure, but it would make 
things go a few months faster if somebody took ownership of testing in 
general.

I'll also be creating a TODO list for what needs to happen with Phobos. 
E.g. @nogc version of std.string:indexOf. So plenty of places anybody 
can jump in and help :)