BITPROX's commercial IDE stopped !

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-11-06 15:15, Lutger wrote:
> 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.

It had/has a lot of bugs, crashing several times every day but it 
had/has more features than, for example, CDT and in the end I thought it 
was (still is) worth it because of all the features it has (most of the 
times).

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg