D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Timon Gehr" <timon.gehr at gmx.ch> wrote in message 
news:jok96k$l7t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Properties of a 'good IDE', as I see it:
>
> some essential properties:
> - starts up instantaneously
> - uses the screen space efficiently
> - supports editing text efficiently
> - accepts keyboard input as given by the user.
> - reasonable support for auto-indentation
> - supports searching the code for some text efficiently
> - keeps all code _readable_, especially the one that has been written 
> recently
> - pattern recognition based code completion
>
> - ... by default!
>
> some 'nice to have' properties:
> - code analysis based code completion
> - navigate-to-declaration
> - for those languages that require it: automatic generation of 
> boilerplate.
> - integrated debugger
> - useful refactoring tools
> - visualization of compilation errors (but please don't nag me)
> - actual support for detecting semantic errors as they happen (extremely 
> difficult to do properly)
> - any other argument that is commonly used to advertise IDEs
>
> - ... _responsive_ on halfway recent hardware!
>
> some anti-features:
> - splash screen
> - cannot run code if there is no 'project/solution file'
> - sometimes messes up those files
> - build fails - restart IDE - build works
> - fancy GUI
> - requires pointing device
> - accidental hit of obscure keyboard combination ...
>   => permanent, extremely annoying configuration change
>   => no way to tell what happened
>   => no undo operation
> - termination of the debugged program kills the output console
>
>
> As long as IDEs fail to satisfy every single point in the 'essential' 
> category and strive to have all of the stated anti-features, they don't 
> have much value for me anyway.
>

Hear hear!

Although I'd swap the positions of "pattern recognition based code 
completion" and "_responsive_ on halfway recent hardware!". In fact, I'd put 
"responsive" at the top of the "essential" list.