The problem is that the scale of a project like this literally
stops people from starting. Couple this with the fact that a non
existent project doesn't attract any developers and you've got
negative feelings from the start.
I wouldn't worry about that though!
I think the benefits of a project like this far outweigh any
initial worries about scale. Personally, i would love for there
to be a D GUI toolkit that is available for all D supported
platforms. It would be awesome being able to create D GUI
applications in a straight forward way and something which i
truly think would attract many more developers to D. IMHO It's
one of the two big attractors* to using any language, i.e. an
easy to use GUI toolkit. I honestly think that's why C# and
Python caught on as quickly as they did.
If work is started on a project like this and shows promise, i
wouldn't be adverse to contributing.
Keep this quote in mind:
"Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with
a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get
large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it
is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you
might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don't think about
some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn't solve some
fairly immediate need, it's almost certainly over-designed. And
don't expect people to jump in and help you. That's not how these
things work. You need to get something half-way useful first, and
then others will say "hey, that almost works for me", and they'll
get involved in the project."
Linus Torvalds - Linux Times (2004-10-25)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050404020308/http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145
SO who will be the first to start? ;)
* The other is games programming capability but we'll leave
discussing building a full opengl games programming framework for
another thread. ;)
