DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-06-11 14:33, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Reddit:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1g47df/dconf_2013_metaprogramming_in_the_real_world_by/
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> Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861237
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> Twitter: https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/344431490257526785
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> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/655271701153181
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> Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmwKRYrfEyY
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> Please drive discussions on the social channels, they help D a lot.

I really don't understand the problem with IDE. He mentions that he's 
not interested in any autocompletion, refactoring or anything like that. 
Basically just syntax highlighting. Most code editors support D these 
days. I also can't believe that just because an editor has support for D 
syntax highlighting will introduce more bugs. So is he saying that all 
editors are bad and crash?

I mostly use TextMate (Mac OS X only) when coding D. Having support for 
D certainly doesn't make it crash more. There are one or two problems 
with TextMate but that has nothing to do with D and are easily 
avoidable. It has crashed once or twice for me but not that many times 
that it's worth bring up like this.

Sublime Text is also a good text editor, available on Mac OS X, Linux 
and Windows. It's fast and stable as far as I'm aware.

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/Jacob Carlborg