Code Poet, an IDE for D

[Anders F Björklund]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:

> Among other things, I started writing an IDE for D from scratch and
> opened a SourceForge project for it a few minutes ago, I'll also open a
> dsource project to link to the sf one in the following days.
> 
> At first I tried to code it in D using wxD but soon found out the
> limitations of these bindings, then I tried to write my own wxWidgets
> bindings which worked great until i realized I was leaking memory like
> hell and had a hard time linking garbage collected D objects to C++
> reference counted objects without adding complex overhead.
...
> Jumping back in C++ was refreshing, I now make very little use of 
> macros, feel much more comfortable with templates and generic 
> programming, basically I write C++ as if I was writing D, and it only 
> makes me love the little conveniences of D even more.
> 
> The IDE will also be cross-platform, I'm using wxWidgets for all the 
> user interface and boost for everything else.

Sounds like a good approach for a new fresh DMD2 IDE, the oldskool stuff
with GDC and wxD and Code::Blocks is not very likely to make it there...

I think Walter writes DMD the same way (D in C++) and Andrei is a fan of
Boost, so I don't think you can go wrong there... Hope it gets released!

--anders