dmd support for IDEs and the D tool chain

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 10/17/09 07:06, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Christopher Wright"<dhasenan at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:hbarno$188s$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 10/16/09 12:58, Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>>>> GtkD supports Glade.
>>>
>>> Yes, but GtkD doesn't use native controls.
>>
>> A minor point, I think. Eclipse doesn't look very native and has
>> widespread acceptance.
>
> Probably not as minor as it might seem. I find eclipse ugly. And although
> I'd never really thought about it before, I have to admit, I think it *is*
> one of the many factors as to why it's always felt too "bloated" for my
> tastes.

Yes eclipse looks ugly. It's quite hard to create a GUI that looks good 
and native on all platforms (if you don't use separate GUIs).

> Besides, I can think of things (lots of things, in fact) that are pure
> steaming piles of (well, one can guess), but even despite that have still
> managed to gain widespread acceptance.
>
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