On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 15:38:51 UTC, someone wrote:
It is a mature field, they peaked in the late 90s early 00s. What came afterwards was mainly decoration/cosmetics because the hardware evolved to being able to handle it. But the concepts, what a combo-box is, how it works, etc, remained set on stone. Of course new controls were invented but most of them were for corner-cases or things quite specific like a UI for a pro-audio console mixer.
I don't really agree with this, most of the interesting things for specifying UIs are happening in web-frameworks/web-standards nowadays. But it doesn't matter...
If I were to make a desktop application in D today then I would have chosen to either embed a browser-view and use that for interface, or electron. Not sure if has been mentioned already, but it is an option.
