I want to develop IDE for D

Christian Manning cmanning999 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 04:37:49 PDT 2012


On Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 15:39:38 UTC, Alexander77 wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 15:14:35 UTC, dennis luehring 
> wrote:
>> Am 21.06.2012 13:58, schrieb Alexander77:
>>> I have written one fully-functional(auto-complete etc) IDE
>>> already for VS,
>>
>> you mean a plugin, or? VS itself is the IDE
>
> I mean a plugin (I don't think there is any need to write IDE 
> from beginning)
>
>> btw: the buildin debugger of Studio does not work for D stuff 
>> - because of different Debug-Formats, VisualD got support for 
>> pdb-files buildin, will also try to come to this state - or 
>> just an Editor (which is not an IDE)
>>
>
> yes, I know, I had a look at VisualD already
>
>> which programming language does your "IDE" support?
>>
>
> it supports Unreal Script (Java-like language), of cause it is 
> not so complex as D.
>
>> Why don't you extend VisualD to your needs - or is there 
>> something
>> wrong with the curren D source or licence of VisualD?
>
> No, One of the option is to extend VisualD and other one is 
> using Qt Creator as a base for plugin. Only difference that I 
> have experience with writing "Language Packages" for VS and do 
> not experience with writing a plugin for Qt Creator
>
> But what I really want to find out if there is any need in any 
> IDE or people just happy to use a text editor and a command 
> line compiler.

Qt Creator is hands down the best IDE I've used for C++ so D 
support in it would be incredible!

I've never seen a language plugin for it though


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