Code Poet, an IDE for D

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> It's been some time since I last posted to this newsgroup, I've been 
> quite busy these past weeks!
> 
> Among other things, I started writing an IDE for D from scratch and 
> opened a SourceForge project for it a few minutes ago, I'll also open a 
> dsource project to link to the sf one in the following days.
> 
> At first I tried to code it in D using wxD but soon found out the 
> limitations of these bindings, then I tried to write my own wxWidgets 
> bindings which worked great until i realized I was leaking memory like 
> hell and had a hard time linking garbage collected D objects to C++ 
> reference counted objects without adding complex overhead.
> 
> So after spending two weeks on these failed attempts, I jumped back into 
> C++ after two years of almost only writing D code, this time using 
> boost, and boy is that library sweet!
> 
> Here is the (very simple) website of the project, with a screenshot of 
> the program so far, the content is hard coded for now to test the custom 
> editor painting routines.
> 
> http://codepoet.sourceforge.net
> 
> 
> Jeremie


Though I don't use an IDE myself, I think this is great. It is often 
mentioned on the NG that one of the things keeping people away from D is 
  the fact that there are so few IDEs with good D support.

Are you strictly targeting Windows, or will this be available for other 
platforms as well?

-Lars