Spreading the word about D

[Jacob Carlborg]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
>> ... and a real and usable IDE...
> 
> In what ways is Decent not "real" or "usable" and how can we address this?

First I can say that I have quite high standards but I only need a 
couple of features but I want them to work, every time and to be as good 
as JDT or better. Like autocompletion, go to definition, project 
explorer, automatic generation of documentation comments, ddoc view, 
highlighting of all occurrences of the current token under the cursor, 
syntax errors and some semantic errors are shown with a reg squiggle, 
syntax highlighting, formatter and a build system. Yes all of these 
exist in descent, except a build system, but all of them don't work all 
the time.

Example: autocompletion, go to definition and syntax errors and some 
semantic errors stop to work perhaps 50-100 lines down the code. 
Sometimes just a few lines down the code.

I must say that in my opinion descent is the best IDE/editor for D there is.