UNA 1.1 Released - "Live" Syntax Checking for D

[Paul D. Anderson]

John A. De Goes Wrote:

> Rayne Wrote:
> > UNA's D tools are so hard to figure out to use I just gave up on it.
> 
> Sorry to hear that. Did you check out the screencast we have showing how to setup UNA for D?
> 
>     http://www.vimeo.com/1364875
> 
> It takes all of 5 minutes. And actually isn't necessary anymore for casual coding because we've preconfigured UNA with a tool to compile D source code.
> 
> If you have any difficulty after watching the above or trying UNA 1.1, we'd be happy to get you up and running. Just contact us using the support form at http://www.n-brain.net.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John

I'm afraid I agree that it is too difficult to use right out of the box. I watched the Una and D video and the one on setting up the collaborative version (one of which I have not got).

Two big problems and then one I couldn't get past. 1) It wasn't obvious how to get the system to recognize my existing files. I could copy them into the project, but that's not the same thing. And 2) when I ran the D compiler it exited with a cryptic error message, the gist of which was that it couldn't run.

Neither of those were fatal problems -- any new IDE has a learning curve. But when I went to look for help the only options I found were an "about" dialog and a tip of the day. That was the one I couldn't get past. Uninstall.

The product looks promising. I like the premise, although I'm working solo on my D projects. But it wasn't worth the cognitive effort. The controls were not intuitive (to me, but that's what intuitive means, right?) and there weren't help files or examples to bring me up to speed. 

I'll keep checking on developments. If I were working on a collaborative project I'd spend more time evaluating it. But for now I'll stick with my text editor and batch files.

Paul