DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

Don turnyourkidsintocash at nospam.com
Thu Jun 13 06:22:22 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 12:39:49 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 09:06:00 UTC, Don wrote:
>> Mono-D and Eclipse DDT both have major problems with long 
>> pauses while typing (eg 15 seconds unresponsive) and crashes. 
>> Both of them even have "modules of death" where just viewing 
>> the file will cause a crash. If you're unlucky enough to get 
>> one of those open in your default workspace file, the IDE will 
>> crash at startup...
>
> https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/issues?state=open ;)
>
> It does sound like a serious problem but I can hardly expect 
> IDE maintainers to fix such stuff without having a bug reports.

Guys, this wasn't even part of the talk. The point I made in the 
talk is: at the moment, IDE bugs are much, much worse than 
compiler bugs.

Those IDEs are in an alpha state at best. They are not in a state 
where you can just submit bug reports but keep using them. Not 
commercially.



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