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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 09:25:44PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 December 2019 at 14:41:46 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Whilst many programmers are happy using 1970s approaches
> 
> Please. Have you actually spent the time to learn these systems in the
> last 40 years?
> 
> My experience is IDEs are just different, not necessarily better or
> worse.  Just different enough that people used to one find the others
> difficult to learn.
[...]

Yeah, vim (and probably emacs -- I don't use it so can't speak for it)
has come a *long* ways from its original vi roots. So has CLI
development tools in general. I think it's very unfair to equate vim to
the 1970's version of vi when comparing it to a GUI-based IDE.

Generally, I find myself *much* more productive with CLI-based tools;
IDEs are generally much heavier in terms of memory and CPU usage, and
worst of all, require a GUI, which for me is a deal-breaker because I do
a lot of work over SSH connections on not necessarily reliable networks.
The amount of network traffic needed to operate a GUI over a remote
desktop is just so much more than the much lighter weight of a few
keystrokes that for me it's a very unproductive choice.  That, plus the
amount of RAM + CPU + disk investment needed just to get an IDE to even
start, to me cannot even begin to compare to how few resources are
needed to be highly productive with a bare-bones Vim installation. I
just have a hard time justifying such an investment when what I get in
return is so undesirable within my operational parameters.  If I were
forced to use an IDE, I would be tempted to just stop programming at
all. It would certainly *not* make me a better programmer.


On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 01:26:11AM +0000, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> I have trouble seeing how an IDE is going to make anyone a better
> programmer.
[...]

Yeah, I call BS on that statement.

OTOH, it's certainly a valid point that IDE support needs to be good in
order to appeal to that subset of programmers who prefer to work in an
IDE.


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