The following will take much less time and can achieve good, native results quickly:<br><br>Design a user-code facing clean api using idiomatic D (front end code): windows, widgets, callbacks via delegates, etc.<div>Design a glue layer to talk to different backends: gtkd, wxd, qtd, fltk etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is what python does with matplotlib:</div><div><a href="http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html">http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html</a> : they support pygtk, wxpython, tkinter, qt, macosx, or fltk, and also non interactive backends)<br>
<div>The user code stays clean, the results are native (depending on backend), and the wheel is not reimplemented.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Nick Sabalausky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com" target="_blank">SeeWebsiteToContactMe@semitwist.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:41:08 -0700<br>
"Adam Wilson" <<a href="mailto:flyboynw@gmail.com">flyboynw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Mon, 20 May 2013 12:28:16 -0700, Dmitry Olshansky<br>
> <<a href="mailto:dmitry.olsh@gmail.com">dmitry.olsh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
</div><div class="im">> > Markup for GUI layout seems like a decent idea.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> HTML is markup. XAML is markup. QML is markup. XUL is markup. iOS is<br>
> markup. Android is markup. Realistically, the age of OS native<br>
> toolkits has passed, markup is the future. *shrug* For me it's a<br>
> practical thing,<br>
<br>
</div>And what takes that markup and actually executes it? Magical GUI<br>
fairies? ;)<br>
<br>
Markup is, by necessity, nothing more than a front-end for a<br>
code-based GUI engine/toolkit/whatever-we-want-to-call-it. The GUI<br>
toolkits will always be there whether it's the UI designers that use it<br>
directly or the markup developers that use it directly.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>markup is extensible, OS widgets are not.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I don't know where you got that idea.<br>
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