giD (giddy) is a repository for GObject Introspection D binding libraries using the gidgen binding generator.

v0.9.3 adds support for the following additional libraries: Atk, Vte-3.91 (a virtual terminal widget that uses Gtk4), and GtkSource-5 (Gtk4 source code editor widget).

After much feedback from the D community, this version has now switched to using lowercase for package directories and module names and simplifies the dub sub package names (gid:gtk4 instead of gid:gtk-4-0).
That will hopefully be the last of such major backwards compatibility breaking changes, leading up to a more stable v1.0.0 release.

The gid-gtk4-examples project has also been updated to work with this latest release.

Some screenshots showing some of the new libraries added:

On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 00:19:52 UTC, Element Green wrote:

Thanks for the great work, Element Green. Lowercase package and module names fit nicely with the rest of the D ecosystem. I have all the necessary building blocks (gtk, gtksource, vte) now to migrate my GtkD based applications to giddy - something I am planning to do this week.

On Wednesday, 26 February 2025 at 10:11:49 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

Thank you for your efforts with adding Atk, Vte and GtkSource, as well as helping to improve giD in general! I look forward to the next phase of adding GStreamer and other versions of Gtk. As gidgen improves it should become fairly trivial to add D bindings for additional libraries with GObject Introspection interfaces.

Fantastic first announcement. I gave it a quick spin on OSX and that its just working with dub out of the box (besides one minor compile error) was amazing (btw. I used gtk4 from homebrew).

On Sunday, 2 March 2025 at 10:49:44 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote:

It is really good to have more OSX users to try giD and its subpackages out and report any issues you find. Do not hesitate to ask any question on giddy forum.