D IDE

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On Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:56:54 +0000, ShadoLight wrote:

> I know the "we use Vim/Emacs, why don't you pitch in and help on VisualD
> if you want to use it" view is valid opinion, but it will not bring the
> masses since it will never happen - the critical mass is composed of
> devs that want to _use_ VS/eclipse/etc - not _develop_ to enable them.
> Besides, they are not coding at home,
> and there is very little incentive for said enterprises to assist with
> this - they see it simply as a cost if D does not offer sufficient
> benefit over C#/java/etc. So this is not going to happen except as an
> effort inside the D community itself.

I would be surprised if VisualD isn't on the D foundation's list (see 
[1]). They just have other things that (right or wrong) are higher 
priority right now.

And Rainer Schuetze has been making major improvements, both to VisualD 
and to D on Windows in general. It is getting better.[2]

Until there's money on VisualD's development, this constant back and forth 
isn't going to change much. People that don't use VisualD aren't likely to 
work on it, and won't be able to test their work if they do. It really is 
going to take people who use it and decide it's worth improving.

--Ryan


[1]: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/

[2]: I was going to add "just at the pace of one person's spare time," 
then realized he's actually offering much better support than a well-known 
vendor I've spent $10,000+ with on one of my major problems...