Mmrnmhrm 0.1 released

[Ary Manzana]

The main difference is that it has a big different point of view in 
developing the IDE. While Descent copies JDT and tries to adapt it from 
Java's logic to D (which can result in being very hard to understand for 
further modifications), Mmrnmhrm is made almost from scratch, reusing 
Descent's ported parser and copying some ideas from JDT, but not just 
copying the source code and changing what's appropriate.

Also, (at least for now) it is more focused on semantic stuff, so it has 
"go to definition" and autocompletion funcionalities, which Descent lacks.

I think it's a great project, and what I think is the greatest thing is 
that Descent and Mmrnmhrm have disjoint funcionalities, so in some point 
they may merge into a single project which has both of the two worlds. 
One other possibility is that any or both projects will be merged into 
one that is based on DLTK ( http://www.eclipse.org/dltk/ ).

Descent sooner or later will have "go to definition" and autocompletion, 
but I'd like to try reusing DMD's semantic code first, which we know 
it's ok (except for some bugs, of course), instead of implementing 
semantic based on the specs like in Mmrnmhrm (this has the disadvantage 
that it may have more bugs, but the advantage that is not so 
compiler-oriented, so it's easier to understand). As you see, there are 
a lot of points in consideration for implementing a D IDE.

Bill Baxter escribió:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> This is the announcement of the first public release of Mmrnmhrm.
>> What is Mmrnmhrm? Mmrnmhrm (pronounced mer-nem-herm :P ) is an Eclipse 
>> IDE I've been working on, partially based on Descent, and aimed at 
>> bringing semantic IDE functionality (such as code completion, find 
>> definition, find references, etc.) to D.
> 
> What exactly is the relationship with descent?  The urls point to 
> descent's Dsource download area, and you say it's based in part on 
> descent, but yet the announcement makes it sound like it is not descent. 
>  Is this going to become descent 2.0 or something?  Like egcs vs gcc?
> 
> --bb