Mainstream D Programming

[Bruce Adams]

Janice Caron Wrote:

> On 10/14/07, David Brown <dlang at davidb.org> wrote:
> > Also, I tend to deal with lots of code in lots of different projects,
> > rather than a single project.  I find it better to have powerful, but more
> > general functionality, than a tool that often doesn't even know the
> > languages that I'm working with.
> 
> That's a very good point, and one with which I must concur. While I do
> use Visual Studio at work, I never bother with it at home because it
> doesn't know about all the languages I use. Sure it can do (a
> microsoft dialect of) C and C++, but it knows diddly squat about PHP,
> Javascript, or D. A powerful text editor, on the other hand, can
> easily be equipt to deal with any language whatsoever, and therein
> lies its true power. It is infinitely upgradable, and can be retooled
> for any new purpose just by editing text files ... for which of
> course, it serves as its own tool.
> 
> If IDEs were so great, there would be no talk of making an IDE "for
> D". Rather, your existing IDE would already be capable of doing the
> job.

It is :).
[speaking for both emacs and eclipse]