OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:59:59 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Do you really think implementing a *good* IDE for D is easy now? :-P
>>  (of course Descent works in this case, but just because it has the  
>> full dmdfe in it... so basically a good IDE will need to be able to do  
>> CTFE, instantiante templates, etc., and all of those things are kind of  
>> unclear in the specification of the D language, so if you don't use  
>> dmdfe... well... I hope you get my point)
>
> The dmdfe is available, so one doesn't have to recreate it. That makes  
> it easy :-)

The source to gcc is available, so that makes porting gcc to another  
platform easy.

-Steve