Best IDE

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 8/08/2015 7:00 a.m., Kingsley wrote:
> On Sunday, 2 August 2015 at 20:46:00 UTC, Zekereth wrote:
>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 07:44:12 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:20:11 +0000
>>> "Brandon Ragland" <brags at callmemaybe.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just curious who thinks what IDE is best?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think any IDE is perfect, and I've been using Eclipse with
>>>> DDT and have been having a good time with it. However I don't
>>>> particularly like Eclipse much, and was wondering what others though?
>>>>
>>>> I don't use Windows myself so I couldn't use VisualD or anything
>>>> like that or try it out.
>>>>
>>>> -Brandon
>>>
>>> I really like Jetbrains products (IntellijIDEA, Phpstorm, CLion ...),
>>> unfortunatly there is no full support for D in any of them :(.
>>>
>>> So I use DDT and MonoD, however I am not big fan of eclipse and
>>> MonoDevelop neither.
>>
>> I was really hopeful about an IntellijIDEA plugin
>> https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage but then he updated the readme
>> with "PLEASE NOTE - This project is not being actively maintained at
>> the moment - I am taking a break - not sure when I will return."
>>
>> There are also two other attempts that are also abandoned.
>
> If someone will volunteer to help me write the D parser in intellij I
> will continue with the plugin. The reason the project stalled is because
> I was using the DDT parser and the way its hooked into intellij caused
> massive performance problems. I think the only way to have acceptable
> speed is to implement the D parser in the intellij supported way. Which
> does not support left recursion. Unfortunately I don't have the skills
> to convert the current D grammar into the format intellij wants - I have
> even tried to pay people to help me - but with no success.
>
> I love using intellij - but you have to do it their way if you want to
> create plugins for it - which unfortunately sucks.
>
> When I say volunteer to help - I mean contribute hours, weeks and months
> of sustained effort on a regular and constant basis until the basic
> parsing is done. Once the grammar is parsable I can add all the other
> stuff that makes working in intellij awesome.

Have you reconsidered going my original way of using a D tool to produce 
the AST? Like DScanner.