These aren't written in D, but they are *for* D (or any other
non-C++ language in need of its own canonical, language-native
GUI). They export a C API for maximum ease of use.
OpenWL[1] - cross-platform top-level windowing library, with
native menus, events, clipboard/DnD.
OpenDL[2] - cross-platform drawing library (with
Quartz2D/CoreText-compatible API), built on the native APIs for
each platform: Quartz2D/CoreText for Mac, Direct2D/DirectWrite
for Windows, and GTK/Pango for Linux.
There is still plenty of work to be done on these, but they're
ready to make public and start getting some feedback / bug
reports / etc.
Right now only Windows/Mac/Linux are (equally!) tested/supported,
and I'll have to focus on those for the time being to really
polish these libraries, but I fully intend to port them to more
niche platforms in the future.
Why? I know there are some people who want to start GUI projects
with their language of choice (D/Nim/Haskell/Rust/etc), but
trying to lay the foundation to abstract away platform
differences is a big, annoying detour for people who just want to
get started. So I did all that annoying work because I'm a weird
dude and find this kind of thing enjoyable ... to an extent :)
You can ask any questions here, or on the Gitter[3] I've created
for both projects:
[1] https://github.com/dewf/openwl
[2] https://github.com/dewf/opendl
[3]
https://gitter.im/GUImakers/OpenWL-DL?utm_source=share-link&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share-link
