D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 12.05.2012 08:53, schrieb 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.

Even Eclipse and VS do this, to certain extent, for C and C++.

Nowadays, my use of VIM and Emacs is relegated to quick edit of 
configuration files and small scripts.

--
Paulo