Whats holding ~100% D GUI back?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 23:25:12 UTC, aberba wrote:
> I've seen some C++ GUI attempts getting some success with few 
> people working on them.

They all look like they are cool projects, but most of them seem 
to be immediate mode (low level graphics is pushed to the screen 
more or less directly). So I would imagine that they are mostly 
useful for simple GUIs or require more programmer effort than you 
get from typical retained mode GUI framworks.

Anyway, is it really important that all the code is in D?  If so, 
why not port a retained mode framework that already exists? Like 
Skia/Flutter.

Keep in mind that:

1.  GUI APIs have to change constantly to stay competitive. Apple 
recently changed their API to Swift UI, which is more declarative 
than the previous API (like some Web UI frameworks). A rather big 
change IMO.

2. OS/Hardware vendors quickly change graphics interfaces. E.g. 
OpenGL is no longer a thing on Apple, so you need a separate 
Metal engine.

You need a team of at least 10 skilled people that make it their 
primary hobby to stay relevant. Porting seems a much more likely 
option if the goal is to have something that is useful for 
production.


> https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear

Appears to have D bindings, though.