On Thursday, 2 July 2020 at 03:07:06 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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> This is pretty interesting and exciting news. I have been using GIMP on and off since it was on X/Motif, and it would be crazy cool to have such a huge project using D. I remember the switch to (and creation) of gtk, it was itself a huge undertaking, and that was before GIMP was as complicated as it is today.

Note this is only the front end. I'm not saying that means small, especially if they are in fact writing a toolkit too.

I could definitely see a team who has worked on gimp being able to do something interesting with D in the graphics space. They wanted something more differentiating, that will certainly happen using D.