looking for an IDE

Phil Deets pjdeets2 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 21:27:06 PDT 2009


On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:09:44 -0500, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Phil Deets wrote:
>> Hi, I'm new to D and am mostly interested in D2. Is there a Windows IDE  
>> with support for D2 debugging, building, and basic code navigation  
>> (such as go to definition)? I've been trying a couple different IDEs,  
>> but most seem to be focused towards D1. Another nice to have "feature"  
>> would be support for keeping everything in a directory with spaces. I  
>> put feature in quotes because I consider it a bug if it does not  
>> support that.
>>
>
> I have yet to find such an IDE on windows, I use poseidon for its simple  
> project manager and syntax highlighting (I had to add the latest D2  
> keywords manually), but it has no semantics analysis and the ddbg  
> support is half broken so I debug with windbg, however its very light  
> and very fast.
>
> I hear Descent for Eclipse is getting support for D2 so you might want  
> to start looking there, it does semantics analysis but Eclipse is too  
> heavy an IDE for my tastes. I can't tell if it has jump to definition.
>
> Jeremie

I tried Descent, but it didn't work well at all with my D2 program. It  
also didn't support building. I'll look into Poseidon. Thanks.

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