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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