BITPROX's commercial IDE stopped !

[Lutger]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> On 2010-11-06 14:43, Lutger wrote:
>> Stephane C wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Looking at the company blog, It seems that the people from BITPROX are
>>> about to abandon development of their IDE.
>>>
>>> blog address : http://bitprox.com/blog/blog5.php
>>>
>>> Sad news... I am personally convinced that there is little chance for a
>>> programming language to stand against Java or C# without a
>>> professional-grade IDE.
>>
>> Perhaps, but bitprox ide was not professional grade by far. Plus, you
>> need an outstanding ide in the commercial space, just professional is
>> not good enough.
>>
>> Descent was the one ide that had the potential to compete with the very
>> best C#/Java IDE's and beat every C++ IDE out here. (and it did so in
>> some respects). But there are more projects, like Visual D and DDT.
> 
> Descent was/is far better than any C++ IDE I've seen. Now I'm waiting
> for Xcode 4 which contains a complete frontend hoping it will be as good
> as JDT.
> 

Descent did have some polish problems and of course lacked in contributors 
too much. I hope that ddmd may eventually provide the semantic plumbing for 
D tools that is required to achieve such excellence as descent. I'm also 
looking forward to try DDT.