OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Yigal Chripun]

bearophile wrote:
> Yigal Chripun:
>> IMO, designing the language to support this better work-flow is a good 
>> decision made by MS, and D should follow it instead of trying to get 
>> away without an IDE.
> 
> Do you have some more focused suggestions, then?
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

first and foremost, the attitude of people about IDEs needs to be changed.
1st rule of commerce is "the customer is always right", and the fact is 
that the industry is relying on tools such as IDEs. If we ignore this 
fact D will become another niche academic language that no one uses.

second, D needs to update its stone age compilation model copied from 
C++. I'm not saying we need to copy the C# or Java models exactly, but 
we need to throw away the current legacy model.
Java has convenient Jar files: you can package everything into nice 
modular packages with optional source code and documentation.
similar stuff is done in .net.