Which D IDE do you use?(survey)

Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 10 03:12:53 PDT 2015


On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 09:29:51 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:28:47 +0000
> Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 08:25:52 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:02:12 +0000
>> > Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d 
>> > <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 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?
>> >
>> > Yes
>> >
>> >> Do they autocomplete?
>> >
>> > Yes
>> >
>> >> Do they build / deploy to device with one keystroke?
>> >
>> > Yes
>> >
>> >> Do they support debugging (breakpoints / variable / 
>> >> registers inspection)?
>> >
>> > Yes
>> >
>> >> Do they support refactoring?
>> >
>> > I do not know
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> 
>> Happy to have learned something today. A lot must have changed 
>> since I used Vim few years ago then.
>
>
> Yep, as I said, you can make IDE from vim (you will need many
> plugins), but I still prefer Intellij Idea, QtCreator or 
> another real
> IDE with vim mode editor ;)

And the features I mentioned are like the very basics, I strongly 
doubt Vim will ever allow me to debug OpenGL / Direct3D rendering 
call by call and observe the color buffer. In the end it feels 
like console vs GUI preference really.


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