Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

[Christian Manning]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 13:24:40 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 20 March 2012 14:34, Christian Manning 
> <cmanning999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 19 March 2012 at 21:18:02 UTC, alex wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> It may sounds a bit annoying because I already was asking 
>>> everywhere in
>>> the IRC channels but still had no success -
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who wants to be my GSoC mentor for the Mono-D 
>>> project?
>>>
>>> In the case you don't know what Mono-D is all about:
>>> It's about creating a D language binding for MonoDevelop. (
>>> http://monodevelop.com/**Screenshots 
>>> <http://monodevelop.com/Screenshots>)
>>>
>>> There are couple of things that are already implemented - 
>>> like a
>>> relatively nice but fast code completion, build support, 
>>> small refactoring
>>> operations like they can be used in every modern IDE and few 
>>> other things
>>> which will make application development with D a lot easier - 
>>> especially
>>> for D newbies.
>>> (Debugging is also available via gdb on Linux systems - so 
>>> yeah, why not?
>>> :))
>>>
>>> The main road map for this summer of code is available under
>>> https://github.com/aBothe/**Mono-D/blob/master/**MonoDevelop.DBinding/**
>>> Remaining%20features.txt<https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt>
>>>
>>
>> Surely debugging support on platforms other than linux is much 
>> more
>> important than any of these things you have listed. These 
>> things may be
>> nice, but absolutely unnecessary. Integrated debugging is a 
>> must.
>>
>
> Debugging is great with VisualD in Windows. It's about the only 
> thing
> VisualD does really well yet, although the rest of the 
> experience is
> starting to come together. Needs a lot more polish in general.

I actually found myself using Mono-D for the nice completion and 
VisualD for debugging, which is a total pain and probably more 
effort than its worth :)