Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 14:35:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:19:27AM +0200, Chris wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 07:08:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >You can use this tool to automatically generate bindings to C
>> >libraries:
>> >
>> >https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
>> >
>> 
>> Great stuff, Jacob! Congratulations.
>> 
>> One thing that is usually not mentioned in articles about D is 
>> that
>> you don't need an IDE to develop in D. This was, if I remember 
>> it
>> correctly, one of the design goals.
>
> Was it a design goal? If so, kudos to Walter. :) Because one of 
> my
> criteria for a better programming language when I decided that 
> I was fed
> up with C++ and needed something better, was that it must not 
> have undue
> reliance on an IDE or some other external tool to be usable. 
> Thus, Java
> was disqualified (too much boilerplate that can't be adequately 
> handled
> without an IDE -- of course, there were other factors, but this 
> was a
> big one). It must be usable with just a text editor and a 
> compiler. D
> fit that criterion rather nicely. :)
>
>
> T

I don't know if it's still on the website here somewhere. But I 
remember reading (2 years or so ago) that D shouldn't require a 
big IDE but should be manageable using a text editor and a 
compiler. And it is true. So far, I haven't used an IDE for my D 
programming.