The State of the GUI

[Gregor Mückl]

On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 11:23:27 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> Btw I agree with the assessment that CSS+HTML is where it's at 
> currently. It's not that it's best but browsers are about the 
> only thing that can display multi-lingual text correctly.

Why would you say that bo toolkits (HTML is no toolkit!) can 
render multilingual text? Some of them most definitely can. If 
programs fail to support it, it is mostly because some of the 
required international work cannot be abstracted away and has to 
be performed in a domain-specific way by the application 
developer. And that is hard.

And I have to put my foot down hard and tell you that HTML for 
desktop UIs is just inadequate and wrong. D as a language is 
strongest when performance matters. That includes applications 
that need very involved GPU accelerated rendering and 
visualizations. Webkit or Blink would imply that WebGL is 
required for rendering. And that is a toy API compared to what is 
available in DirectX, OpenGL or Vulkan and comes with severe 
limitations.