Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

[Kapps]

On Monday, 26 March 2012 at 19:43:56 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
> I think that the best thing that we can do right now is to 
> focus on bringing the parser to completion. It's still missing 
> some key features of D, especially in terms of code-completion 
> and syntax highlighting. It's also missing UFCS from 2.058, 
> which is a pretty big deal I think. For a full list of tasks 
> that Alex would like to get done please see this list: 
> https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt
>
> As to an IDE written in D, that's a HUGE project and well 
> outside the scope of what can be accomplished in a GSoC 
> project. It takes millions of lines of code to make a *DECENT* 
> IDE. Not to mention that UI design is something that will 
> always polarize the community, some basically want a glorified 
> VIM/EMACS while other will settle for nothing less than a 
> Visual Studio clone, still more people will want a radically 
> different UI from anything previously seen (I personally am 
> intrigued by Code-Bubbles for instance). Plus why bother with 
> that when we can integrate into existing solutions like 
> MonoDevelop or Visual Studio *much* quicker.
>
> I personally think that Mono-D represents the most capable path 
> forward for D IDE's right now, maybe later that might change as 
> D grows, but for the moment we need an complete IDE fast, and 
> integration can deliver that.

And one of the very nice things about Mono-D is that the parser 
is completely standalone. It would not be difficult to integrate 
into Visual Studio in the future. Both are done in C#, and both 
are somewhat similar to code for. Instead of making a D specific 
IDE, we can just use a very nice plugin for both Visual Studio 
and Mono-D, with being able to use the same code-base for the 
logic.