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> Another area where D could shine is GUIs I've often thought that, to the extent that I spent a while looking for some active projects I could contribute to,
by zem 1y ago
> Another area where D could shine is GUIs
I've often thought that, to the extent that I spent a while looking for some active projects I could contribute to, and came up blank. if I do have some new gui based program of my own I want to write I will at least consider d for it, though ocaml is another great language in the same space and I already have some experience with ocaml/gtk. my hope was that d would have more mature gui toolkit bindings and more of a community of people writing apps, which would have been some incentive to switch over from ocaml, I was disappointed to find that wasn't the case.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI think it needs to do build its own GUI stack and not rely on any others, maybe take inspiration from tooling like Delphi's which allowed you to add themes on a whim.
- zem 1y agoI don't know, gtk has solved a lot of problems that you don't necessarily want to reinvent from scratch and the api is pretty consistent with an object oriented language
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI guess as long as it comes packaged in such a way that you never have to fight GTK itself not being configured to compile correctly im okay with it.