Commercial IDE for D

[David B. Held]

Ary Manzana wrote:
> David B. Held escribió:
>> kmk wrote:
>>> Just wondering if anybody has heard any rumors of any commercial IDEs 
>>> being developed for D now that 1.0 has been out for a while. 
>>
>> It seems extremely unlikely that this will happen.  The closest thing 
>> you will probably get is the Eclipse plugin.  This is a decent start, 
>> but could use some help (*hint* *hint*)...
>>
>> Dave
> 
> What do you mean by "could use some help"?

I mean, if you compare it to the Java plugin, it doesn't do Ddoc 
integration from what I can tell, it doesn't integrate with the Eclipse 
run system (as a D application or a set of DUnit tests or the debugger), 
it doesn't integrate with the Eclipse notion of source folders and 
packages, etc. etc.  Then there's the little things like the fact that 
the D editor uses the Java editor icon, doesn't work with the Hierarchy 
viewer (though the Outline viewer works great), doesn't integrate with 
the D build tools, etc.

These aren't show stoppers by any means, but many of them are things 
that people take for granted when they say "commercial IDE", so I was 
just letting the OP know that the Eclipse plugin is mostly a text editor 
and not really a full IDE.  I think it's a great start, and I might be 
willing to get my hands dirty and lend a hand on some of those features, 
but I think we can all agree that the D plugin has a ways to go to 
achieve parity with the JDT.

Dave