Mono-D at GSoC - Mentor needed

[Christian Manning]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 13:58:51 UTC, alex wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Personally I don't want to waste time with scanning tons of API 
> documentation just to find out what parameters my called phobos 
> function has got.
> In larger projects, with large amounts of classes and methods 
> it'll be hard to find everything in a short time.
> So I doubt that code completion is that unnecessary.
>
> Debugging is important, for sure, but without having abstract 
> access to the debugged code it'll be quite impossible to e.g. 
> read out memory and to know what this memory represents.
> Just imagine I was given a pointer address but don't know that 
> it's a string[]?
> And now imagine you want to debug mixed-in code? I guess you 
> won't be able to do this without knowing what your mixin code 
> finally looks like :)

Yeh I can see its utility but I would sooner have some debugging 
support for non-mixed-in code.