Adam Wilson is now a GSoC 2012 mentor!

[Andrew Wiley]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-05-18 19:20, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>
>  I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is
>> simply totally unrealistic. If it's just a D editor with some IDE
>> functionality, sure, someone can toy around and try to work on that, but
>> as for a proper IDE, there is just so much functionality and
>> infrastructure that platforms like Eclipse, Visual Studio, MonoDevelop,
>> Netbeans, etc., provide that is dumb and futile to try replicate all of
>> that in D. There are years of paid, multi-developer teams work behind
>> that infrastructure, and you want one or two guys to replicate that in
>> their free time? Right.
>> We don't even have a mature, fleshed-out D GUI library, let alone IDE
>> infrastructure...
>>
>>
> Half of Eclipse is ported to D :)
>
> https://github.com/d-widget-**toolkit<https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit>


Half of Eclipse ~4-6 years ago ported to D.
That certainly doesn't make it not useful, but DWT hasn't managed to keep
up with Eclipse.
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