Just starting out

[J Arrizza]

Thanks for all the replies. Seems straightforward enough:

1) Phobos is it.
2) DMD is the clear winner
3) Eclipse is a hog - knew that. I really only like a couple of things in
it. A big one for me is the source formatting. For some reason, having to
hit the space bar 4,000 times every hour just isn't my cup of tea.

The formatter for java set a nice high standard for configurability that I
was hoping a D plug-in would also have. I had issues with installing descent
on Linux (worked ok in windows for some reason), but I'll give it another
shot on Indigo. If that doesn't play, I'll stick with UltraEdit (great
editor, got a life-time license for it).

John



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-10-13 01:43, J Arrizza wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm just starting out in D, read the book, tried a Hello World, and
>> wrote a few unit tests. I'm ready for the next step.
>>
>> I'd like to begin writing some more complex D code which I want to use
>> not only as a test bed to investigate D itself to a deeper level but if
>> it's successful to eventually use it as the beginnings of a toolkit for
>> our internal use.
>>
>> I'm looking for some recommendations from folks with lots of experience
>> in D:
>>
>> 1) Which to use: Phobos, Tango, or Tangobos? It makes sense for us to
>> use D2 so this seems to preclude Tango for now. Correct?
>>
>
> Most people will definitely say D2 and Phobos. I still think Tango is
> better and for the time being that means D1. I also think that some parts of
> D2 is not quite ready yet.
>
>
>  Are there plans to merge or standardize on one of these? Phobos and
>> Tango seem to be incompatible with each other at this point.
>>
>
> Yes, Tango and Phobos are incompatible. There are someone/a couple of
> people working on porting Tango to D2. I think that port will use druntime,
> meaning it will be compatible with Phobos.
>
>  My worry here is if we choose the wrong underlying library we end up
>> having to re-write a lot of code later on.
>>
>> 2) Which compiler? DMD, GDC or something else?  We use Ubuntu 10.04, 64
>> bit as our development platform. I'm assuming the gc is in all the D
>> compilers.
>>
>
> DMD is a good compiler for development. It's the fastest available D
> compiler (as far as I know). It's always up to date, LDC and GDC can be a
> release behind DMD. I don't know what's best for production. I usually hear
> people saying that LDC and GDC is better than DMD but I haven't done any
> benchmarking myself.
>
>
>  3) DDT (eclipse plugin) seems relatively green. Any other suggestions
>> for an IDE. Not a big deal for us, but it's nice to have source
>> formatting. The DDT folks indicated that that feature is a long way off
>> for them.
>>
>
> There's an older plugin for Eclipse called Descent. It has source
> formatting and a couple of more nice and interesting features, like compile
> time debugging. I also shows both syntax and semantic errors (semantic
> errors are disable by default). I still uses this plugin but I can be quite
> slow and unfortunate it's not maintained anymore. I still recommend you take
> a look at it.
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/**descent<http://dsource.org/projects/descent>
>
> Otherwise I use TextMate on Mac OS X. There's also a similar application
> called E (text editor) available on Windows (in the works for Linux too).
> It's compatible with TextMate's bundles.
>
>  Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>



-- 
John
blog: http://arrizza.blogspot.com/
web: http://www.arrizza.com/
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