DMD 1.005 release

[Sean Kelly]

Ary Manzana wrote:
> Walter Bright escribió:
>> Ary Manzana wrote:
>>> Second, this makes even harder to get good IDE support for D. You can 
>>> have syntax coloring, and that's it. Autocompletion is going to be a 
>>> very though part: the IDE must act as a compiler, as you say it, to 
>>> figure out what the program will look like so that it can know what 
>>> are the declarations available to the programmer.
>>
>> True, but on the other hand, specifically not supporting it in the IDE 
>> may act as a needed brake on evil uses of it.
> 
> I didn't say an IDE won't support it, I said it'll be very hard to get 
> there :-)
> 
> But... I'm wondering which are the evil uses of it. For me it's now 
> almost impossible not to program with an IDE (big projects, I mean). At 
> least in Java. Maybe compile time stuff will make it such that an IDE 
> won't be needed anymore. But it's very hard for me to see that happening.

Oddly, I've found myself moving away from IDEs over the years, perhaps 
partially because the editors I like to use aren't IDEs.  About the only 
time I use an IDE any more is for debugging... coding happens elsewhere.


Sean