Is UI interesting for us?

[Jacob Shtokolov]

On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 10:03:29 UTC, Ikey Doherty wrote:
> Is there general interest in UI within the D community? And is 
> there enough to have our own toolkit, or would we be better 
> placed to contribute to the likes of gtk-d?

I'm pretty sure there is some interest. The only problem is that 
all those UI toolkits are severely outdated and not up to the 
current standards.

IMHO, the current UI standards are dictated by the frontend 
frameworks like React or Vue, and also Flutter (and I'm talking 
about the component-oriented UI).

Rust has another UI library that follows the React functional 
patterns: https://dioxuslabs.com/

Those functional paradigms are also a great fit for D's dip1000 
and the possibility to avoid the GC as all the UI components have 
a deterministic lifecycle makes it a pretty natural choice for 
implementing it in D as well.

If only we could have something like Vue.js (where styling and 
representation are properly defined) and be able to switch 
backends, say, GTK, QT, HTML, etc...

I bet that would be a huge win for the D community!