Qt Creator and D

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Manu wrote:
> Edit-and-continue is what MS calls the obvious extension from 
> incremental
> linking where you can re-link your exe while it's running and 
> paused in a
> debugger, and then continue debugging the current process with 
> the new exe
> after it links your code changes.
> it's one of visual studio's most valuable tools.

I see, I didn't know VS was capable of that, but it doesn't sound 
very useful for large projects which take a lot of time to 
compile (which I'm sure is important to you folks at Remedy).

I figured it was something along those lines though, so I tested 
editing a file while stopped on a breakpoint, and then running it 
and it didn't work. It's possible there's some switch i needed to 
hit, or that it would work with Clang/LLDB, but I doubt it (don't 
quote me on that though, you should ask the KDE folks).


> It requires support from various stages in the pipeline and 
> gui, but it's
> been available for a decade from MS. Surely someone else has 
> bothered to
> copy it? (assuming it was invented by MS?)

I wouldn't know. You'll probably get a lot more information on 
what's available from asking the GCC, LLVM, and KDevelop IRCs.


> Debugging is the most important feature an IDE offers by far, 
> and it's only
> half-implemented if it doesn't support edit-and-continue. 
> Everything else
> looked good to me in kdevelop. I'll definitely give it a bit 
> more time.
> Sadly there seems to be no push for D in kdevelop though :(

Make sure to ask someone more informed than me before you write 
it off, but I'm guessing this is an area Linux dev tools are 
lacking in compared to Windows.

In Gabe Newell's recent talk at LinuxCon, he mentioned Valve is 
interested in make Linux a more friendly environment for game 
developers. To that end, they're working on two different C/C++ 
debuggers (one for LLVM, I forget the other) and I'm guessing 
they wouldn't feel the need to do that unless they where unhappy 
with the current situation compared to what developers expect 
from Windows. Hopefully their efforts are fruitful in the near 
future.

I've been using Linux and FOSS tools for nearly two years now, 
and I'm surprised I'd never heard about KDevelope until only a 
few months ago. It's a great IDE with a lot of nice features 
(even has Sublime-style text overview) and I hope D gets more 
attention from the KDev/Kate teams in the future.