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

[Regan Heath]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:40:40 +0100, Don <turnyourkidsintocash at nospam.com>  
wrote:

> On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 06:49:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-06-13 16:44, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>
>>> I've always use VIM without any problems. Is not what you typically  
>>> call
>>> an IDE though. I think now some of "our guys" are using Geany  
>>> moderately
>>> successfully, for sure much better than Ecplise and Mono plugins. IIRC,
>>> the main problem with those huge IDEs were memory usage and death-files
>>> (files that made the IDE crash consistently).
>>>
>>> I think there a lot of working advanced editors for D, but IDEs are
>>> quite behind (at least in Linux).
>>
>> 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.

Notepad++ is better than notepad:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.3.3.html

Windows only tho I'm afraid.

R

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