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

[Peter Alexander]

On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 07:40:42 UTC, Don wrote:
> On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 06:49:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I agree. But he said at the end of the talk that he didn't 
>> want codecompletion refactoring or anything like that. Now he 
>> said he just wants something better than Notepad that is 
>> stable.
>
> I don't know what's going on here, somehow people are 
> consistently misunderstanding me.
>
> The question in the talk was along the lines of "what's wrong 
> with D's IDEs". And people expected the problem was that they 
> don't have good refactoring support or something. But the 
> problem is much more severe:
>  Mono-D is not as good as Notepad.
>  EclipseD is not as good as Notepad.
> Because they are unstable.

What we're not understanding is that, if you don't want 
refactoring, or intellisense, or any of that stuff then why not 
just use notepad, emacs, vim etc.? Surely those are stable?

That's why people were asking what you wanted from the IDE, so 
that they could suggest stable editors that had those features. 
If you don't want lots of features then Mono-D and EclipseD are 
not good choices.