What are we missing, in terms of tool support?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-14 10:49, %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.

The reason, as I see it, that this hasn't happened yet (I assume that 
this would be written in D) is:

* The reference compiler is written in C++
* There isn't any GUI library that most of the community seems satisfied 
with
* The support for dynamic libraries is limited

These are the only ones I could think for now

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg