dmd support for IDEs

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "language_fan" <foo at bar.com.invalid> wrote in message 
>> "Practical" languages
>> have lots of boiler-plate, and I can easily generate hundreds of lines of
>> code with a couple of key combinations or mouse clicks.
> 
> I disagree very much. For a puritanical anal-retentive language like Java, 
> you *have* to have all that fancy stuff just to make the language even 
> usable. But with a practical language like D, I have mixins, and I've gotten 
> pretty good with regex find and replace, which obviously isn't as good, but 
> it's good enough when dealing with any language that's at least somewhat 
> sensible. With practical languages I never need to generate hundreds of 
> lines of code. If I ever actually needed to do so (and in a way that an IDE 
> could actually help with), I'd take that as a very big red flag that I was 
> using an incredibly shitty language in the first place (like Java).

I think Nick has a point. Java lacks template mixins, and so inserting 
hundreds of lines of code from an IDE "template" is normal. But with D, 
doing such would be abnormal.