Whats holding ~100% D GUI back?

[thedeemon]

On Wednesday, 20 November 2019 at 04:29:18 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> For 100% D GUI toolkit, we would need somebody who is 
> knowledgeable on Unicode (text layouting e.g. Bidi) and font 
> rasterization. These together are many a man year projects and 
> quite massive.
>
> But more realistically with using e.g. FreeType and HarfBuzz:
>
> - Image library (started)
> - Event loop (next on my list to do)
> - Windowing
> - Render pipeline
> - Text rendering (part of render pipeline sort of)
> - Widget rendering (I'm doing requirements gathering atm)
> - Theme management (CSS-like + reloading + widget renderer + 
> text rendering)
> - UI automation
> - Controls
>
> So yeah, lots of stuff.

That's the problem - basically all of it is already there in 
DLangUI, it's done, complete, working, and has been for a few 
years. But programmers being programmers, prefer ignoring 
existing libraries and keep reimplementing the same stuff from 
scratch. In most cases it doesn't go too far, as the steam dries 
out. In some cases it does go far, we get one more UI library 
that nobody uses, and instead other people reimplement the same 
from scratch and keep asking what's holding us back... It's a 
cultural thing, I guess. ;)