The State of the GUI

[Thomas Mader]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 06:20:05 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> I firmly believe that a non-native, cross-platform, UX library 
> will open D up to a whole new market of users that are 
> desperate for something better than what they have now.

We seem to share similar opinions when it comes to UI libs.
I need to say that I don't have any experience with WPF but 
mostly with Qt, SWT and a little GTK and Swing.

Conrod [1] is something that goes into that direction and you 
might be interested in it if you haven't heard about it.
I found it because I once was interested if someone is working on 
a lib in a compiled language featuring reactive programming with 
a modern Vulkan backend and without any web technologies.

[1] http://docs.piston.rs/conrod/conrod/guide/chapter_1/index.html

I don't have any practical experience with the reactive pattern 
as of yet but it seems to be a good thing.

Even though we share similar opinions I have some questions.

1) How do you expect to find 5 people who are working for at 
least 5 years as fully committed full time developers without 
payment?

2) Let's say the project is successful and offers advantages to 
other UI libs and the web stack but dlang still hasn't got any 
major momentum and backing.
Many might not consider the UI lib as a good candidate just 
because of that reason. Why do you think this UI lib might change 
the perception of dlang?