DMD 1.005 release

[Charlie]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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

When you inherit code or start to code on an existing project, the 
ability to 'ctrl+click' to jump to that variables definition is a huge 
time saver, otherwise you have to grep through tons of files , and in 
large libraries the classes may be nested very deep, you might have to 
ctrl+click 5 times before you get to what you're looking for.

I've actually gone the opposite way, drifting towards IDE's over time, 
even though for 'one-moduler's it remains <insert favorite editor here>.

I am really looking forward to descent, I hope you can devote enough 
time to Ary.


Charlie