What are we missing, in terms of tool support?

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 09:54:41 PST 2011


On 13.01.2011 10:40, Jim wrote:
>> I don't want to make this Vim-specific, so I'm wondering what features are we missing in today's D editors/IDE's that other languages already have in their editors/IDE's?
>
> IDE with incremental compiler.
IDE has nothing to do with incremental linking. And besides the only 
advantage of  incremental linking is slightly faster link time (which is 
pretty fast ATM).
> Non-windows IDEs.
Last time on  linux I used Code::Blocks, there are also Descent and DDT.
> Ddoc integration.
Not sure what you mean here.
> Refactoring utilities.
>
Yup, useful, but hardly critical.
> Template- and conditional-compilation-aware editing.
>
VisualD has it. Not used code paths in static conditional statements is 
slightly lighter, etc.
> Inline error and warning messages.
>
> ....
Do You mean exact line and _column_ of error or what?

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Dmitry Olshansky



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