Is UI interesting for us?

[IchorDev]

On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 13:01:44 UTC, Ogi wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 10:03:29 UTC, Ikey Doherty wrote:
>
>> Is there general interest in UI within the D community? And is 
>> there enough to have our own toolkit, or would we be better 
>> placed to contribute to the likes of gtk-d?
>
> I believe that a really good UI toolkit that would allow 
> writing cross-platform, slick-looking, performant applications 
> with nice code may be the killer app that D needs.

Absolutely agree. Writing professional software sucks in D. 
Imagine trying to make a competitor to Photoshop (or similar) 
when you're stuck with a bunch of UI libraries focused on game 
development! I've been trying to solve this for myself for a 
while. I thought bindbc-wxWidgets would be nice, but the library 
has so much code in its headers that it's totally unmaintainable. 
GNUStep is a promising option I think.