D future ...

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 08:35:52 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
> I'm working on a commercial IDE and GUI framework for a year 
> and half and I'm not able to release any version due to this 
> bug[1].
> But nobody cares about fixing it because it doesn't give any 
> benefits in opensource way to D or what.
>
> I don't know how there can be any others closed 
> source/commercial libraries for D when the one of the key 
> features won't work.
>
> Actually I wasted one and half year of developing project that 
> I cannot release due to the bug. When I started I didn't even 
> know that future existence of my project can depend on the 
> compiler itself. Please, stop adding new features to D and 
> start fixing existing ones.
>
> - Satoshi
>
> ---
> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16590

Personally I'm not really looking for an IDE, I've settled for a 
text editor with a plugin for it. IDEs tend to be bulky and not 
be very good at manipulating text or rather lacking features to 
do so.

I don't see how the interface generator is stopping you from 
releasing the IDE anyways. All it would really stop is 
potentially third party plugins. Even then you can just write the 
interface files yourself. Wouldn't be that hard, just coping the 
source file and removing function bodies for the most part. What 
you'd need to do if you were writing C++ code, but you would keep 
the header and source files in sync as you were developing.