Mainstream D Programming

[Ary Manzana]

Does nobody refactor their code? If so, how a text editor helps?

David Brown escribió:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 06:44:53PM +0100, Janice Caron wrote:
> 
>> However, Bruce's point will not be erased by any amount of hyperbole.
>> When I program in D, I use a text editor, not an IDE. To be sure, it's
>> a programmer's text editor, with syntax highlighting; one that knows
>> how to build D, and jump to the line causing any error, but still
>> ultimately just a text editor. And it is more than adequate for the
>> task.
> 
> I have not, and still do not use an IDE for development.  To me, once
> learned, the features of a good programmer's text editor far outweight any
> extra features an IDE might have.  About the only thing missing is
> completion, but that's because nobody has yet taught 'vim' how to do D
> completion.  It does a fairly good job just guessing based on what other
> things are in my files.
> 
> None of this means that someone shouldn't get various IDEs to work with D.
> I'm just pointing out that there are still a large number of developers who
> don't use them, and don't really find them all that useful.
> 
> David