D is our last hope

[Walter Bright]

On 12/19/2023 6:17 AM, Luna wrote:
> All the software my company (Kitsunebi Games) and my main project, Inochi2D, is 
> written in D.
> 
> I am currently also speccing out a new UI toolkit for use in the Inochi2D 
> project with a more modern look, working on a 
> [library](https://github.com/Inochi2D/numem) to make DLang usable without a GC 
> while still maintaining support for classes and such to make D libraries more 
> usable outside of D, and such.
> 
> Inochi2D is also by extension bringing new blood in to the D community through 
> people interested in contributing to the project, as well as people getting 
> interested in D by extension of Inochi2D being written in D. And as it stands 
> unless Walter does something really stupid with the language I do not intend 
> switching away from D.
> 
> That being said I do sometimes feel like I need to maintain my own corner of the 
> D ecosystem due to the lack of well maintained libraries, but hopefully the new 
> blood joining through the Inochi2D community will help maintain all the 
> libraries and apps I'm creating, heh.
> 
> Additionally, I now collaborate with the Dplug maintainers to make libraries 
> more usable across the language ecosystem besides just Inochi2D.
> 
> One thing to hope is that the NLnet grant I applied for goes through, would mean 
> I could work another year on Inochi2D and surrounding libraries instead of 
> taking on contract work, thereby expanding the part of the D ecosystem made for 
> desktop apps.

Wow! Some great work here!