Code Poet, an IDE for D

[Walter Bright]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> watching wrote:
>> most programmer want use the language and a lot libraries that come 
>> with it. instead of gui, db etc. you guys discuss until all 
>> prospective users are gone off to use something that lets them do the job
>>
>> maybe it is time to put a large effort into libraries by all the 
>> bright people that are arroung d. 
> 
> The IDE I'm developing is exactly for that purpose, to bring more people 
> to D and to make writing D code more convenient.

Exactly, and I'm most pleased to see you and others stepping up to fill 
in the gaps.


> The D language doesn't need to come with tons of libraries out of the 
> box, its a systems language after all; C++ only comes with the STL and C 
> with the stdlib, you need platform headers and third party libraries to 
> do something more than a simple console program.

While that's true that C and C++ became successful with minimal 
libraries, I think the bar is much higher these days. Looking at the go 
library, there's a lot in there we could use in the D library.

http://golang.org/pkg/

The library is licensed under the 
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
meaning we can adapt it to D.


> In any ways, I believe its a good thing to use multiple languages to 
> better understand the differences between them, the end result doesn't 
> change. I could've used java, C#, python or even mozilla's XUL with 
> javascript and the IDE would've been the same.

I disagree, as then the IDE would be dependent on those large 
ecosystems. One nice thing about native apps is they stand alone.

One thing I do suggest is writing it in a "D-ish" style so that it will 
be easier to translate to D at some point.