OpenWL/DL - two foundation libraries for building a cross-platform GUI with non-C++ languages
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
Re: New DConf Blog Post
On 4/11/19 10:11 AM, wjoe wrote: No offense, but http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ That is the best website EVER. Times a billion. Says exactly the things I've been wanting to scream at jet-engine volume straight into the faces of every web designer and full-stacker in the world. "Responsive web" always made me cringe. HTML-freaking-version-ONE was responsive. And semantic. It was specifically *designed* to be. But then the designers and the know-nothing software managers came, hated that stuff, and killed it all with fire. Then when the sausage-finger small screens came (not to mention browser diversity and "emerging markets"), they shit a brick and started over-re-engineering everything that was already there all along (plus some extra garbage nobody needs). Idiots.
Re: New DConf Blog Post
On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote: On Friday, 22 March 2019 at 13:58:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/03/22/dconf-2019-london-programme/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b45bxp/dconf_2019_london_programme/ Just going to respond to this: "If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you’ll surely notice that it’s been redesigned. The old version was not responsive and was quite annoying to manipulate on small screens." The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional. While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better. It just doesn't look very well done. I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page. No offense, but http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ I'd just tag a Planet-earth-with-a-green-leaf icon and a speech bubble reading "Thank you!" J/K But seriously I prefer the '19 version over the '18 one. The '18 version is super bloated and slow.
