Qt Creator and D

[Wyatt]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 07:16:09 UTC, Manu wrote:
> [...]
> It needs a reasonable amount of support from the compiler and 
> presumably cooperation from the debugger too. If people have
> never heard of it, chances are, it doesn't exist :(
>
Google has been hitting close to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98rhV6wONo (slides:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Manuel_Klimek.pdf)
Lot of potential here, even for a die-hard Vim user like myself.

> Mmmm, a concept that I've always found completely amazing 
> actually. How is it that Linux - truly an OS for developers
> (certainly not for end-users) - can consistently be plagued by
> the worst dev tools out there? Surely someone in the past 30-40
> years get's frustrated at some stage, looks at what MS have
> been doing for over a decade, and think "shit, that's awesome,
> I'd like that too!". I'm actually amazed that MS managed to
> invent it in the first place. You'd think that Linux should have
> gotten to it first...
>
Part of this would seem to be the simple fact that the GNU
toolchain is the de facto standard for working in Linux and other
Unixen.  If you've ever encountered a GNU project's general
attitude toward patches and ideas from "outsiders", the concerns
presented in this SO answer might offer some clarity as to why
it's taken so long:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/4440794/432364
In short: getting all the people involved to agree on answers to
all these questions is sort of a hard problem.
(Though it looks like "Fix-and-continue" was added to the GDB
roadmap about a year ago:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2012?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=jkratoch.pdf)

> I agree, I'm really looking forward to what they bring to the 
> table. I expect it's a lot of work though... they have over a
> decade of catching up to do.
>
Per the links above, they might be closer than it initially
appears.  Of course, it's also a matter of integration and
coordination across multiple projects.  There are, occasionally,
advantages to monolithic vertically-integrated dictatorships.

-Wyatt