Code Poet, an IDE for D

[retard]

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:42 -0500, 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

Is there some reason why you didn't built your IDE on top of some 
existing open source IDE like kdevelop? Also built with C++ and uses a 
modern GUI library. You would only need to plug in the dmdfe, a build 
system, and add some D related GUI functionality.