Why lack of good IDE doesn't peek your attention

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Saturday, 11 February 2017 at 00:35:45 UTC, SC wrote:
> There is 0 IDE with auto import, smart completion, refactor 
> tools, built-in VCS, code generation
>
> This is why i ask why people make their IDE instead of using 
> from starting existing base like IntelliJ
>
> No need recreate the wheel

You pretty much need to recreate the wheel, if you strip out all 
the language features of Intellij it becomes a shell just like 
any other IDE out there. You have to implement all the 
functionality for the specific language. There are good IDEs out 
there that provide enough functionality to make coding easy 
enough. You can look at Visual D or Mono D, both are decent.

Those features aren't that easy to implement, most of the IDEs 
for D all use the same backend tools. Sure you like to use 
Intellij, but there aren't enough people for that. Most of the 
IDE plugins are written by a single person, whereas something 
like CLion is written by a whole team dedicated to working on it. 
It just isn't going to happen. Even then CLion is still horrible 
at doing things like refactoring. It's still stuck with having to 
use CMake as well, not everyone wants to use that.