GUI library for D

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-04-04 15:41, Matthias Pleh wrote:
> Am 05.04.2011 00:14, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
> > Maybe your company could help the DWT or QtD guys?
> > Getting something stable out of that would most probably not take as
> > long as developing your own cross-platform GUI toolkit.
> > Furthermore many people are already familiar with SWT and Qt, so they
> > wouldn't have to learn another toolkit for D.
> 
> You have missed the point. For our company the decision is made. We
> already use C++/Qt now.
> But I really like the D programming language and I use it for all my
> private projects. So I think, we, as the D community, should create a
> modern D GUI library entirely written in D.

Feel free to do that if you want, but I think that most people around here 
would agree that your time would be better spent improving the existing GUI 
toolkit bindings - such as qtd or dwt. A _lot_ of time and effort goes into 
making a truly solid and complete GUI toolkit. Why duplicate all of that work? 
There's just too much else that needs to be done for D. And even if we _want_ 
duplicate that work with a GUI toolkit which is completely written in D, you'd 
need a large team to develop it properly. And given the general difficulties 
in getting contributors for the various major D projects, I rather doubt that 
you're going to manage that.

So, do whatever you want, but I really don't think that developing a new GUI 
toolkit for D is really the best use of your time. There's plenty of other 
stuff that needs doing which would be of greater value.

- Jonathan M Davis