Using electron for IDE development

Mon Jul 4 11:55:57 PDT 2016

On Monday, 4 July 2016 at 18:25:51 UTC, tcak wrote:
> As far as I known, and FEEL, one of the biggest problems of IDE 
> development is cross platform user interface development.
>
> I haven't started using, but Electron seems like a good tool to 
> develop applications by using HTML, JS, CSS. Because it is 
> based on node.js, it can run on many platforms.
>
> There are many HTML based syntax highlighters already.
>
> Would this type of development be causing any licensing, or any 
> other type of problem in the future for us? Any thoughts?

Visual Studio Code is based on electron and works very well for 
me with D when using the code-d plugin for it:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.code-d