IDE written in D

[Brian Schott]

On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 03:49:36 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Monday, 29 July 2013 at 22:19:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> Is it right, that DWT is not further developed?
>>> The only stable option I know is GtkD. Is there any others?
>>
>> GtkD works for me, the most mature framework IMO. DWT never 
>> quite made it. All other options have been discontinued as far 
>> as I know, like for example wxD. IUPD would have been 
>> interesting. Cf. http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/. Like Gtk, 
>> it is written in C, so maybe you can write your own D 
>> interface. The API is not big, they say.
>
> gtk has lots of bugs and glitches especially on OS X. i hate 
> using xamarin studio and mono-d, but unfortunately there is no 
> other tools with good enough autocomplete for mac(and i think 
> linux too). so it looks like we need a truly D UI(not wrapper) 
> first.

Or, you could provide autocompletion with a standalone program 
that's called by whatever text editor you already use. Go has 
GoCode (https://github.com/nsf/gocode) which shows that this sort 
of thing is possible. I have a theory that something similar can 
be done for D.