Code Poet, an IDE for D

[grauzone]

retard wrote:
> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:00:58 +0100, 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.
> 
> Well, you sometimes have to accept that if the language isn't really 
> production quality yet, it's counterproductive to use it for real world 
> projects. When developing the IDE with C++, he will probably not run into 
> that many compiler bugs. With D each 500..1000 lines of code would 
> probably expose at least one bug.

I understand, but others not knowing D won't. That's the problem.

(PS: I don't think there are that many compiler bugs anymore; the larger 
problem are indeed the GUI bindings, especially the memory managment 
aspect.)