Is UI interesting for us?

[GrimMaple]

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023 at 12:04:27 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
> 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 have a selfish interest in this, hence asking. While 
>> spinning a ui toolkit isn't hard, doing it properly can be 
>> (accessibility)
>
> Absolutely!
> I use GtkD in one project as it is, at the moment, the best GUI 
> toolkit for D.
> I would prefer a GUI toolkit entirely done by the D community, 
> from scratch (maybe using Adam's simpledisplay as starting 
> point idk) with ideas borrowed from JavaFX/Swing and similar.

DLangUI does almost all of that. But people aren't interested in 
commiting. They are interested in startig from scratch over and 
over again instead.