What are we missing, in terms of tool support?

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 14/01/2011 09:49, %fil wrote:
> I for one fully agree with you on this, having spend a lot of my
> time in recent years coding in c# and the tool support (from an
> IDE perspective) that comes a along with programming in .Net, I
> agree that the coding productivity in bigger applications receives
> a good boost by an IDE with the features you describe.
>
> To an extend, I'm actually surprised that there is no good cross
> platform IDE written in D(2) already as it would be a very good
> show case for the language and help to lower to barrier for other
> people to adopt the language (definitly if it were to support a
> gui designer (QtD, GtkD or sometime else) of some sort directly
> from the IDE, so people feel they have a complete package to
> create D(2) application easily.
>
> I would even personally happely pay for such a tool (if it were
> cross platform at least) if were only available under a commercial
> license...
>
> fil.

A good cross-platform IDE written in D? There is not even a good 
cross-platform *D compiler* written in D... how about we start there 
first, no? (even if just in terms of a wishlist)

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer