What you use D for?
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Fri May 16 11:48:20 PDT 2008
"Arne" <user at domain.invalid> wrote in message
news:g0gm1q$2ar1$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a developer specialised in making eclipse based IDEs. We consider to
> create a comercial quality IDE for D but are unsure if it will pay of (and
> so we are able to throw full time developers at the project).
>
> We need to know if there will be enough customers. Do you use D for
> commercial projects? Does your company make money with it? And is able to
> pay for an IDE (if it fullfill your needs and speed up your development,
> of course)?
>
> It would be helpfull if you can describe in a few words what you do with D
> and perhaps could provide a link.
>
I use D whenever my hands aren't tied in regard to which language to use.
Regarding tools: right now, I'm using the open-source stuff (CodeBlocks
currently), but out of all such things I've tried, I've have had a number of
complaints with each. Even with CodeBlocks, I have a good handful of
bug/feature tickets in their system, and being open-source, I'm not
expecting those tickets to get resolved soon. And, unfortunately, I just
don't have time to help out on them myself. I've been meaning to give
another try to things like Zeus and Programmer's Notepad, but haven't gotten
around to it.
So basically, I'd be willing to pay a price comparable to Visual Studio
Professional for an IDE that's comparable to Visual Studio Professional (I'm
specifically thinking about Visual Studio's support for C#: it's been years
since I've used it for C/C++). Although, preferably with better performance
in terms of speed and memory usage - I really like responsiveness of the
lighter-weight solutions like CodeBlocks.
Oh, and there better not be any invisible text (or other UI elements) when I
run it on a system with a light-on-dark system color scheme, because that's
just incredibly unprofessional and places it squarely in the category of
"things I'd only use for free". You'd be surprised how many people, both
commercial and open-source, don't follow the guideline of "Foreground and
background colors: Never change one away from system-default without also
changing the other." Hell, I've even seen built-in Windows screens that
ignored that, and you think that *MS'S WINDOWS TEAM*, of all people, would
be well aware that Windows *SUPPORTS CUSTOM COLOR SCHEMES*, and has
supported them since at least as far back as Win3.1. Umm, sorry for the rant
;)
But back to the original issue, anything based on Eclipse would definitely
NOT fit the bill for me. I've tried to use Eclipse a few times before and
find it hopelessly bloated (even a little moreso than Visual Studio), and
whatever the heck it uses instead of the nice clean "project file and
workspace file" mechanism of IDE's like Visual Studio and CodeBlocks just
doesn't seem to make any sense at all.
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