The State of the GUI

[Dejan Lekic]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 06:20:05 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> I was reading the hijacked JAXLondon thread about GUI's and 
> started replying but decided against hijacking the already 
> hijacked thread again.
>
> [...]

Bunch of personal opinions I mostly disagree with...

The only thing I *do* agree however is that D community deserves 
a GUI toolkit similar in power and design to the JavaFX or WPF 
(as you obviously like it, and I do not deny that WPF is designed 
awesomely).

I use DlangUI at the moment for small things, but in all honesty 
it can't compare with JavaFX/Swing (that I am most familiar with).

Unfortunately it seems that D GUI community is diverse, 
interested in different things, and have different ideas how the 
*retained* GUI should be implemented.
I used to be FLTK developer in the past and know perfectly how 
even very small community can have different opinions that result 
in various forks or even worse lose of interest.

The only way forward, IMHO, is to make a huge DIP for the 
retained GUI toolkit and ask the existing D GUI community members 
to participate and once the design is clear participate in the 
implementation.

To be frank, I think the D Foundation should drive this and help 
with establishing and maintaining these kind of "working groups" 
(similar to how Java community process works)