Future of Descent and D Eclipse IDE

[Ellery Newcomer]

On 07/12/2010 02:45 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> So, yeah, as things are, I'm maintaining my approach with Mmrnmrhm:
> writing and improving the (very basic) semantic engine from scratch, and
> using DLTK.
> As for the parser, it will continue to use Descent's parser, although
> the parser is already a bit outdated for D2. :/ It would be great if
> someone were to volunteer to update it... *wink* *wink* :p

sigh, point me at the source

> But better yet would be to start coding our own custom parser (using a
> parser generator like ANTLR for example), that could really be tailored
> for IDE needs. In the medium/long term, that's probably what needs to be
> done.
>

What in particular does an IDE need tailored to it?