Java > Scala

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-04 15:38, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 04.12.2011, 13:41 Uhr, schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:
>
>> On 2011-12-02 22:40, Somedude wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, the IDE takes care of a lot of boilerplate code. It's ugly, but
>>> it's hardly a productivity issue. One other thing that's cool is
>>> refactoring is no longer an issue, like it is in C or C++. With powerful
>>> IDEs, you can refactor without fearing too much regression, and that's a
>>> very important advantage, especially in a heavily OO language.
>>
>> That's no longer the case if you take a look at newer C/C++ IDE's like
>> the latest versions of XCode that uses Clang to handle basically all
>> language related features of the IDE, autocompletion, syntax
>> highlighting, refactoring and similar.
>
> So we want a flexible compiler front end for D written in D as well,
> right ?

Exactly, one that can be used as a library.

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/Jacob Carlborg