Java > Scala

[Marco Leise]

Am 04.12.2011, 13:41 Uhr, schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:

> On 2011-12-02 22:40, Somedude wrote:
>
>> Yes, the IDE takes care of a lot of boilerplate code. It's ugly, but
>> it's hardly a productivity issue. One other thing that's cool is
>> refactoring is no longer an issue, like it is in C or C++. With powerful
>> IDEs, you can refactor without fearing too much regression, and that's a
>> very important advantage, especially in a heavily OO language.
>
> That's no longer the case if you take a look at newer C/C++ IDE's like  
> the latest versions of XCode that uses Clang to handle basically all  
> language related features of the IDE, autocompletion, syntax  
> highlighting, refactoring and similar.

So we want a flexible compiler front end for D written in D as well, right  
?