Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, May 20, 2013 07:25:49 Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
>  I'd also like to know
> the likelihood of getting a GUI toolkit into Phobos.

It's come up before, and I don't think that any sort of decision has ever been 
made on that, though personally, that strikes me as the sort of thing that 
doesn't really belong in the standard library. Certainly, if it did end up in 
there, it would probably have to be very minamalistic.

Also, I thought that general consensus had been that while it would be awesome 
to have a GUI toolkit written in D at some point, that's the sort of thing 
that takes a ton of time and effort, and we have enough other stuff that needs 
doing that the time and effort of the community was better spent on other 
things and that wrapping a C++ GUI toolkit was a better move for the 
forseeable future (with a full D GUI toolkit being something that might happen 
once D is much larger). But anyone who wants to work on a GUI toolkit in D is 
welcome to do it. IIRC, there was at least one small one done in D1 using 
OpenGL. And having at least a minimal one so that very basic GUIs could be 
written fully in D would certainly be very cool.

Personally, I have too much other stuff to do and not very much expertise in 
this area, so it's the sort of thing that I'm very unlikely to be involved in 
and am likely to leave most of the decisions up to others who are much more 
versed in this sort of thing.

- Jonathan M Davis