Would a modern native desktop UI framework and VS Code designer be interesting for the D community?

Sergey kornburn at yandex.ru
Tue Apr 21 10:58:46 UTC 2026


On Monday, 20 April 2026 at 21:15:53 UTC, macasm wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Some questions I would love feedback on:

not D GUI user though

> * Would this be interesting for your projects?

not really

> * What do you currently use for desktop UI in D?

I'm for cross-platform. clay+SDL

> * What are the biggest pain points today?

lack of users

> * Would you prefer direct native Win32 generation, or a 
> cross-platform backend?

cross-platform

> * How important would live preview / visual designer tooling be?

not important

> I would really appreciate honest feedback from people actively 
> using D for desktop or tooling projects.

I think in the era of AI tools - AI could generate many parts 
even based on the scatch that you did on a piece of paper.
I'm not (even anti-) Windows person. So not sure why anyone would 
like to use Windows-specific solution especially as they have 
first class support of C#.


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