On 21/05/13 13:46, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
I'm completely willing to head up the initial development. I probably
won't get anything done, and any initial work will be Linux-specific (I
honestly don't care about Mac OS X or Windows).
Nor me, really.
Nevertheless, I've found using PyGTK means that my GUIs run on
Mac/Windows provided the users are able to install the command line
packages that they're wrappers for (where that's necessary). I will
admit that I had to do a very small bit of Windows specific code to
properly run CLI commands and capture their output (20 or 30 lines).
If anything does get
done, I'll definitely come back here to get help on the design. I'm
willing to do some leg-work, but I'm not experienced in any way, shape
or form with GUI development (most of my work is server-type stuff in Go
or front-end stuff in JS/HTML5/CSS3).
If we're generally in agreement that a UI toolkit is a good direction,
I'd love to waste the next few months of my life doing something that
likely won't go anywhere. I personally think it's much more exciting to
make something in native D instead of trying to work around the lack of
concern other C++ toolkits like Qt have for cross-language portability.
Yes, if D aspires to be a systems programming language it can't keep
relying on wrappers around C/C++ libraries (especially C++). In the
long term, it should be D all the way down to the OS API.
Peter
