Is the D community lacking development tools?

Roman D. Boiko rb at d-coding.com
Tue May 29 01:47:53 PDT 2012


On Monday, 28 May 2012 at 23:01:24 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Fri, 25 May 2012 18:25:10 +0400
> schrieb Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com>
>> But it lacks:
>> - fast editor ;)
>
> That's in part due to how unprepared the poor GtkTextView was 
> when it was told to highlight source code. I think it is 
> neither optimized for setting/switching out thousands of 
> tokens, nor for fixed width fonts where applicable (e.g. 
> calculating column/line pixel offsets). GEdit and MonoDevelop 
> both use GtkSourceView/GtkTextView btw.
MonoDevelop uses Gtk# and created its own sorce editing widget 
(IIRC since v. 2.0)



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