[OT] What kind of Editor, IDE you are using and which one do you like for D language?

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2019-12-23 at 08:09 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
wrote:
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> 
> No idea, I use vanilla vim (not even with syntax highlighting -- I'm
> a
> hardcore retro guy).

Surely a hardcore retro guy would be using vi not vim? Indeed wouldn't
a real hardcore retro guy be using ed?

:-)

I used to be anti syntax highlighting in editors, but it was because
the highlighting was usually crap or worse wrong. Once I started using
syntax highlighting where the highlighting was correct with respect to
the language definition, I found it indispensable.

Of course the real problem is that we store text of code rather than
AST of the code,  but that war got lost in the 1980s when syntax
oriented editors were rejected in favour of text editors. Now editors
and IDE spend all their CPU cycles reconstructing and maintaining the
AST of the code from the text representation.

It's a mad, mad, mad world.
 
 
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