Dscanner - DCD - Dfix ... Editor support or the lack of it.

Jonathan M Davis newsgroup.d at jmdavisprog.com
Mon Jan 29 00:52:01 UTC 2018


On Sunday, January 28, 2018 16:18:40 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 05:13:15PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > Either way, more folks need to put some time and/or money towards IDE
> > development for D, or the folks who want first class IDE support for D
> > are never going to have what they want.
>
> Still, it's strange that given the number of people who demand first
> class IDE support, there are so few who are willing to contribute to
> improving it.

I suspect that part of the problem is that if they really care that much
about having an IDE, they don't get into D far enough to then put in the
time to improving the situation.

> > Personally, I don't really care, because I have no interest in such
> > support.  I have no problem if it gets implemented, and it probably is
> > better for the D community if we have better IDE support, but it
> > wouldn't improve my life any. If we're going to get improved tooling,
> > I'd rather see more improvements to stuff like dub than better IDE
> > support. So, I generally ignore the complaints about the lack of good
> > IDE support. Either way, it's not something that I'm going to spend
> > time on. I have too much on my TODO list already.
>
> [...]
>
> It doesn't really concern me either, but neither do I want the
> indifference of the non-IDE folk to be misunderstood as active neglect.
> But people will see what they want to see, so meh, I guess.  All I can
> say is, after coming to D, I did find some things not quite to my
> liking, so I fixed them myself and submitted PRs. And so did many others
> like me. And we're all better off for it.  Now if only more from the IDE
> crowd would do the same, things might be different...

That's really the only way that anything gets done around here. Someone
decides that they want something fixed or implemented, so they put in the
time to do it themselves, and everyone benefits. Almost nothing happens
because of folks posting about how they want something done. The net result
is that what gets done is heavily biased towards what the folks willing to
put in the time and effort want done.

- Jonathan M Davis



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