Is UI interesting for us?

[sai]

I have been using DWT since last 10 years. I think it has the 
perfect combination of features for my needs. Its in maintenance 
mode now but still works.

* no large dll dependencies, compiles to a single small exe on 
windows
* default looks OK and very good customizability w/o any bugs
* fast compilation
* being from java background, almost no learning curve.
* eclipse GUI builder can help to find the function calls that I 
need to use to make a specific ui.

I wish more people work on it and keep it up-to-date. :-)

But if something can be done in Dlang, will be lovely.
Wish DlangUi took off and become more mature.


On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 10:03:29 UTC, Ikey Doherty wrote:
> Most of the time I've been a backend engineer. However at times 
> I do need to write an app, and usually I go with Gtk.
>
> However, I'm a bit concerned that gtk-d seems .. well, 
> catatonic. DWT also appears to be beyond life support.
>
> We all know Rust has iced-rs, which due to the design of Rust 
> has had to adopt the Elm paradigm.
>
> D, with features that honestly don't need reiterating, could 
> trivially manage OOP, ECS, mixins...
>
> 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)