OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[BCS]

Hello Yigal,

> Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
>> Yigal Chripun wrote:

>>> Make _is_ a build tool
>>> 
>> Yes. But since it's on every Unix since almost 40 years back, it
>> doesn't count here.  :-)
>> 
>> Besides, it has tons of other uses, too. One might as well say that a
>> text editor is a build tool. You construct (or erect) software with
>> it. ;-)
>> 
> Nope. it does count as an external build tool
> 

OK and so can bash because it can run scripts.

But that's not the point. Neither make nor VS's equivalent is what this thread 
was about. At least not where I was involved. My point is that the design 
of c# *requiters* the maintenance (almost certainly by a c# specific IDE) 
of some kind of external metadata file that contains information that can't 
be derived from the source code its self, where as with D, no such metadata 
is *needed*. If you wanted, you could build a tool to take D source code 
and generate a makefile or a bash build script from it