Code Poet, an IDE for D

[Jeremie Pelletier]

grauzone wrote:
> 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!
> 
> Oh dear, that's not good publicity for D...
> I know the implementation language doesn't really matter, but it's just 
> not good publicity.
> 
>> 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

My choice of C++ was based on the wxWidgets library, not the language 
itself.

I don't mean to do bad publicity to D, and I believe a good IDE will do 
D more good than it being written in C++ would do harm.

Jeremie