dmd support for IDEs

[language_fan]

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:01:03 -0400, Nick Sabalausky thusly wrote:

> "language_fan" <foo at bar.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hasd5u$1fgu$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> Well since there is already a project working on an Eclipse plugin, I
>> see little use for other IDEs at the moment. The D community is rather
>> small and only a small amount of people are capable of developing and
>> willing to donate their free time on free IDE development (commercial
>> IDEs have small potential now that
>> Netbeans/Eclipse/IntelliJ/KDevelop/Visual Studio dominate the market).
>> So why not concentrate on fixing the spec and fixing compiler bugs
>> instead of building a modest IDE support no one will use?
> 
> Any editor that is less responsive than notepad is useless to me, and
> I'm far from alone on that. Thus, we don't go anywhere near Eclipse,
> VS.NET, or anything along those lines (bunch of bloated garbage...and
> probably designed to get developers to buy fancier hardware and thus end
> up develop apps that require their users to buy fancier hardware).

Fine, if you are happy with your productivity. For me it was a natural 
choice. I started with notepad like editors, then moved to "programmer's 
editors" like crimson editor and jedit, soon discovered vim and emacs, 
and finally have settled down on Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio, and 
IntelliJ IDEA. The productivity boost is enormous. "Practical" languages 
have lots of boiler-plate, and I can easily generate hundreds of lines of 
code with a couple of key combinations or mouse clicks. Another killer 
feature is the "intellisense" stuff. Having the ability to see a) 
inferred type b) integrated html rendered javadoc c) type correct class 
members etc. saves me hours of work time per day. YMMV