total newbie + IDE

Laurent Tréguier laurent.treguier.sink at gmail.com
Sun Feb 9 22:42:09 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 22:10:57 UTC, solnce wrote:
> No, I understand that and agree - VSCode is impressive and I'll 
> try it, but what is wrong with idea to have a dedicated IDE? At 
> least one. C/C++ has tons of these and many of these are being 
> actively developed, so why D cannot have? Especially when it is 
> aiming to replace C/C++. Argument that VSCode is pretty much 
> enough for most task it is ok, but is not very valid. The same 
> applies to D itself - why to make a new language then when 
> there is C++ around and there is a tons of IDE's for it.
>
> Personally I feel this is more about lack of the vision, as 
> Alexandrescu once said. Now it feels like D is mostly the 
> compiler, but I think, that having one big mega project (like 
> IDE+RAD) could give a new breath and significance to D language.

Making an entire IDE would be a lot of work. Making plugins for 
existing editors is already time consuming, and is less work than 
building a complete solution.
Given how powerful regular editors can be, whether it's VSCode, 
Vim or Emacs, plugins make for a good compromise bewteen the time 
spent making the plugin, and the result you get.


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