The State of the GUI

[rikki cattermole]

On 28/10/2018 8:12 PM, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 October 2018 at 07:08:33 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> On 28/10/2018 8:03 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>> Building your own GUI toolkit is very much an '80s or '90s mindset, 
>>> back when that was paramount. It isn't anymore, and would be a waste 
>>> of time to try with D.
>>
>> WIMP dates back to the 60's in a fully functional state.
>>
>> It isn't going anywhere.
> 
> Oh, I never said it is: I explicitly said it will always be around like 
> COBOL. When's the last time you wrote any COBOL or interviewed for a 
> COBOL job? Exactly. :)

The last time I worked with COBOL was 4 years ago when I wrote a parser 
for it.

There is still a very large market for COBOL developers: 
https://www.cobol-it.com/