OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[BCS]

Hello Christopher,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
> If you wanted, you could create a tool to do the same with C# source
> code, assuming there exists a directory containing all and only those
> source files that should end up in the resulting assembly.

I'm /not/ willing to assume that (because all to often it's not true) and 
you also need the list of other assemblies that should be included.