Which D IDE do you use?(survey)

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 10 01:20:12 PDT 2015


On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 08:02:15 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 22:58:44 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> Hi, I hope nobody minds but I'm just curious as to the 
>> popularity amongst D IDEs for a blog post. Sorry if I forgot 
>> your favorite $editor.
>>
>> http://goo.gl/forms/MmsuInzDL0
>>
>> thanks : )
>
> In my time Vim and Emacs were just fancy text editors, not 
> IDEs. Are they really IDEs now? Do they manage pojects? Do they 
> autocomplete? Do they build / deploy to device with one 
> keystroke? Do they support debugging (breakpoints / variable / 
> registers inspection)? Do they support refactoring?
>
> Please don't take it as an attack or trolling but if they don't 
> (and I am pretty sure they don't (maybe I am wrong about 
> autocoplete)) they they are not Integrated Development 
> Environments.

They support a great deal of what you mention through plugins and 
integration with existing toolchains.

I'm pretty sure I don't want my build and deployment process tied 
to my specific editor/IDE. Having 'make' (or hopefully something 
less horrible) mapped to a keyboard shortcut works fine.


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