Vision for the first semester of 2016

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 25/01/16 7:39 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 03:21:51 UTC, Puming wrote:
>> On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 02:37:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Hot off the press! http://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H1 -- Andrei
>
> [snip]
>
>> For tooling, I suggest a look at GUI/IDEs, now that dlangui/dlangide
>> seems a good candidate(native D, crossplatform). A good official
>> supported GUI library will attract many people.
>
> I truly doubt that. It would be truly amazing if that were to occur but
> history has proven otherwise. The sentiment was expressed so many times
> that Walter was finally moved to sanction DWT as the official GUI for D
> in 2006. Even a newsgroup was made for it. It's ten years later. DWT
> anyone?
>
> Aurora was a recent attempt that was shelved for the sole author's
> personal reasons. Result?
>
> Sadly, dlangui/dlangide is no different. It has one developer. If that
> individual gets discouraged, like so many others have so far, what
> becomes of it?
>
> Until members of the community starts combining efforts and working
> together to improve the situation, it will not improve. You have Adam
> working on working on simpledisplay, Mike working on Derelict, Felix
> working on three-d, Vladimir working on ae-graphics, Martin on
> freeimage, Vadim on dlangui/dlangide and who knows what else is out
> there in the wood works. All of this is admirable and appreciated but
> imagine what would be possible if these minds teamed up, mapped out a
> graphic solution for the language and united efforts in implementing it!
>
> I'm convinced that without such a deliberate effort, this situation will
> not change for years to come. Even if a particular library is dubbed
> "The One." Like I've said earlier, that was already done ten years ago.

I agree.
This is why everything I'm doing right now for windowing and image 
library builds upon what has come before but in a Phobos quality way.

Unless it is in Phobos, its not good enough as a base IMO.