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

[Colin Grogan]

On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 10:48:52 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:31:03 +0100, Don 
> <turnyourkidsintocash at nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 06:58:22 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2013-06-11 14:33, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Reddit:
>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1g47df/dconf_2013_metaprogramming_in_the_real_world_by/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861237
>>>>
>>>> Twitter: 
>>>> https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/344431490257526785
>>>>
>>>> Facebook: 
>>>> https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/655271701153181
>>>>
>>>> Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmwKRYrfEyY
>>>>
>>>> Please drive discussions on the social channels, they help D 
>>>> a lot.
>>>
>>> I really don't understand the problem with IDE. He mentions 
>>> that he's not interested in any autocompletion, refactoring 
>>> or anything like that.
>>
>> Actually not. I'm just opposed to any work on them right now. 
>> The point is that all of those things are COMPLETELY WORTHLESS 
>> if the IDE crashes. It's not just "a bug". It's an absolute 
>> showstopper, and I'm begging the community to do something 
>> about it.
>> Fix the crashes, and then we can talk.
>
> I use Notepad++ now and have used TextPad in the past.  But, 
> those are just text editors with syntax highlighting (fairly 
> flexibly and simply customisable highlighting BTW).
>
> What are the basic features you would require of a development 
> environment, I am thinking of features which go beyond the 
> basic concept of a text editor, such as:
>
> - The concept of a 'project' or some other collection of source 
> files which can be loaded/displayed in some fashion to make it 
> easier to find/select/edit individual files
>
> - The ability to hook in 'tools' to key presses like "compile" 
> executing "dmd ..." or similar.
>
> ...
>
> R

How about a GUI front end to vibe-d's dub?

I use that extensively on command line and find it very good, I 
imagine it would be easy enough write a GUI for it...