There exist some GUI Toolkits for D, however, they are more or
less all based on bindings to native toolkits.
Is anyone working on or are there plans to develop a pure
Swing-like GUI Framework for D? While bindings have the advantage
of using native widgets, they tend to lack behind as native
widgets toolkits evolve and improve from version to version.
Also, the full use of native features is not always easily
accomplished (cf. SWT/JFace). A self-contained framework (like
Swing) that could be extended as needed by a small set of native
bindings - to implement os specific tasks - might be worth
looking into.
D would have the benefit of hindsight in avoiding mistakes made
in other GUI toolkits (such as Swing and SWT/JFace), and while
this may sound like reinventing the wheel, catering for
cross-platform bindings (Windows, Linux and OS X) is an endless
race, and might not be real cross-platform after all, because
either a whole platform is not (yet) catered for (cf. DWT), or
some features are not yet implemented for one platform or another.
Programmers have to make practical decisions and from my own
experience I know that nothing is worse than betting on the wrong
horse, and at present I could not decide on a GUI toolkit for D.
Your comments and advice are more than welcome.
