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

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 13/06/2013 17:53, Walter Bright wrote:
> Back in the bad old DOS days, there were many code editors that worked
> instantly. No perceptible delays at all. I find it ironic that today,
> with machines 1000 times faster, some vendors consider it acceptable to
> have 15 second delays.

We're talking about IDEs here, not mere code editors. There is a lot 
more going on in the application, much more potential functionality and 
more things for the IDE to analyze whilst the user works with the source.

That said, 15 second delays, are not acceptable, not at all!
But we are not "vendors": we're not selling a commercial product, nor a 
service, nor even are we getting paid to develop FOSS projects. This is 
something we work on our free time, and that greatly restricts the 
resources we have for that. And like Don said, in the D community 
there's still very few people working on IDEs, whereas the people and 
contributions for the compilers, Phobos and other librarys has increased 
significantly.

It may simply be that more people/contributions are necessary for a good 
level of quality be achieved/maintained.


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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer