Code Poet, an IDE for D

[Eldar Insafutdinov]

Jeremie Pelletier Wrote:

> Lutger wrote:
> > Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> > 
> >> watching wrote:
> >>> what a pityful sate d is in. this probably shows, that you can't use d
> >>> for anything serious and by the time you guys are through discussing
> >>> things, people will be using something different for good. too bad
> >>>
> >> I really don't think so, the very purpose of this IDE I'm developing is
> >> to make D easier to use and develop large scale projects with.
> >>
> >> The only thing still in the way of using D with graphical applications
> >> right now is the lack of proper bindings to cross-platform GUI toolkits
> >> for D2.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, did you consider GtkD and QtD?
> > 
> > Have you thought about how to do plugins / extensions already? Of all the 
> > best software I'm using it seems a large part comes from the extensions. 
> > 
> > I wish you all the best with this project, great to see something started 
> > again on this front. 
> 
> I did consider a gtk/gdk approach but not Qt since I never used that 
> API. However, wxWidgets abstracts both the entire native widgets and 
> drawing tookits and extends them quite a lot, especially with wxAUI, 
> that therefore seemed like the best road.
> 
> I have a basic draft for plugins already. I made a base Component class 
> template to define abstract factories for the different component types 
> such as Language, Compiler, Linker, Librarian and Plugin which each 
> define a specific interface.
> 
> It's a really simple API but it works great, components will be able to 
> register observers at different points in the IDE to implement their 
> functionalities.
> 
> Jeremie

Well, QtD works well for D2, and I must say that Qt is a very easy API to learn.