Programming language for GIMP fork's rewrite

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On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 14:38:11 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 7/2/20 7:07 AM, Mathias LANG wrote:
>> On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 09:36:28 UTC, Mike James wrote:
>>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/hinhcixficvfjwidaknc@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> On Sunday, 1 September 2019 at 18:57:07 UTC, Kamran wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> People who forked GIMP, a popular open source image editor 
>>>> are discussing on which language to choose for their rewrite 
>>>> at [1] and they are considering D. Maybe some of you can 
>>>> help them out.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse/issues/70
>>>
>>> Maybe they need to read...
>>>
>>> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
>>>
>>>
>>> -=mike=-
>> 
>> Especially since they chose D, I am surprised with the idea of 
>> a full rewrite.
>> Gradual transition from a C/C++ code-base is an area where D 
>> shines like no other language.
>
> They appear not to have said exactly what the rewrite will 
> entail - and a lot of the discussion on that thread is how D 
> allows usage of C libraries.
>
> I'm a bit surprised at the UI rewrite, as D has good GTK 
> support, and the focus of GIMP is not really UI. They could 
> easily use GTK and make the UX better.
>
> -Steve


Now GTK+ has usability issues beyond the usual UI stuff. Its a C 
problem. That could be a factor. I believe Gimp is the most 
complex application using Gtk... large C codebase is a message 
without those high-level language features.