D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[SomeDude]

On Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 06:19:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> I do have to say that I find it somewhat funny that this is 
> your set of
> requirements for an IDEA and yet "integrated debugger" is in 
> the "some 'nice
> to have' features" section. Doesn't an IDE _have_ to have an 
> integrated
> debugger or it's only a code editor (since it lacks the whole 
> integrated part
> of Integrated Development Environment).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis


Indeed, and Timon forgot the best feature of IDEs for bytecode 
compilers imho: they compile in the background, so that errors 
are detected while you type. There is no annoying "write-correct" 
cycle as compile-time errors are shown in real time. That's a 
*huge* productivity boost.
It's actually better than with interpreted or scripted languages, 
because once you've finished writing code, it will run ! 
Basically, with modern IDEs, the productivity with languages like 
Java/C# is comparable to Python.

Background compiling shouldn't be too hard to implement for an 
editor, I guess: run the compiler in background on the current 
module every other second (or only when a set of simple syntaxic 
conditions like parentheses/accolades matching are matched, 
conditions which can easily be checked by the editor itself), and 
display the error messages in semi real time on screen where they 
appear.