obsolete D libraries/modules

[Flamaros]

On Saturday, 31 August 2013 at 23:03:48 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On 9/1/13, Flamaros <flamaros.xavier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am a Windows user, but I don't understand why others
>> platforms are forgotten.
>
> I think it's because win32 is the easiest to create a native 
> library
> for, since the standard API functions for creating windows and 
> widgets
> has been the same for many years. On OSX you probably have to 
> interact
> with Objective-C code, which IIRC is hard to do from D without 
> some
> extra language support (there's some pull request for it).
>
> And on Posix you basically don't have a standard API, so 
> front-end
> libraries typically use GTK or Qt as the backend.

Yep, I know that for linux it's hard to use X11 or XCB direcly.
Today linux window manager (unity, KDE) seems want migrate form 
gtk to QML that can interact efficiently with modern window 
compositors (wayland, Mir).
Old GUI systems are to different on platforms that why we made 
the choice of doing something like QML which is based on a 3D 
renderer.
If I am not wrong that so much hard to wrap native GUI systems in 
a portable way than QtWidgets is manually written to mimic native 
GUI.