Is the D community lacking development tools?

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+1 for a GUI lib, which is in sync with DMD releases.


On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 12:08:37 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-05-22 13:21, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:59:04 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2012-05-22 12:03, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>>>> http://d-coding.com/2012/05/22/is-the-d-community-lacking-development-tools.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree with basically everything in that article.
>>
>> I would also appreciate any specific feedback
>
> * do you think such project is worth the effort?
>
> Yes
>
> * do you feel that D ecosystem lacks tool support?
>
> Yes
>
> * Does this prevent many from using D?
>
> Probably, not me though
>
> * which tools are needed most? Which may be needed, but are not 
> a high priority for you?
>
> This is quite hard, that is, how to prioritize. This is my 
> list, in no particular order:
>
> * IDE
> * Compiler (usable as a library)
> * Build tool
> * Testing framework
> * GUI library
> * Tool for automatically create bindings for C/C++/Objective-C
> * ABI compatible with Objective-C, i.e. extern(Objective-C)
> * Package manager
> * Support for iOS
>
> The hard thing is to prioritize. I'm thinking like this:
>
> You need a compiler and an IDE/editor to write any tools. I 
> would like and IDE that is just as good as Eclipse JDT. For 
> that to happen we need a compiler usable as a library. I'm 
> assuming we want to write as much as possible in D so a 
> compiler written in D is necessary. A GUI library would be 
> needed as well.
>
> You would also need a build tool and testing framework to write 
> new tools. Since we want to have everything as modularized and 
> reusable as possible a package manager is also really needed.
>
> If you also want to slap on a GUI on the tools you need a GUI 
> library. For Mac OS X it would be a lot easier to be ABI 
> compatible with Objective-C to create a GUI library.
>
> For most of these tools, in particular: the build tool, testing 
> framework and package manager it would be nice to have the 
> compiler usable as a library. This would allow to have build 
> scripts and other scripts written in D.
>
> So to summarize:
>
> A lot of the tools needed to be built depends on each other but 
> I think most of the tools depend on a compiler, written in D, 
> usable as a library.
>
> * was this post useful? What could I change to make future 
> posts in the series better?
>
> Not really for me, nothing I didn't already know.
>
> * should I add commenting on my blog, or dlang forum is better 
> for that?
>
> I prefer commenting here.