Code Poet, an IDE for D
Lars T. Kyllingstad
public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Wed Nov 11 01:26:29 PST 2009
Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>> It's been some time since I last posted to this newsgroup, I've been
>> quite busy these past weeks!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> So after spending two weeks on these failed attempts, I jumped back
>> into C++ after two years of almost only writing D code, this time
>> using boost, and boy is that library sweet!
>>
>> Here is the (very simple) website of the project, with a screenshot of
>> the program so far, the content is hard coded for now to test the
>> custom editor painting routines.
>>
>> http://codepoet.sourceforge.net
>>
>>
>> Jeremie
>
>
> Though I don't use an IDE myself, I think this is great. It is often
> mentioned on the NG that one of the things keeping people away from D is
> the fact that there are so few IDEs with good D support.
>
> Are you strictly targeting Windows, or will this be available for other
> platforms as well?
Forget it, I see you've already answered this in another post. :)
-Lars
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