DConf 2013 keynote

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 10 May 2013 21:55:57 +0200
"sk" <abcdefg at gmail.com> wrote:

> > In any case, I totally agree that if a language *needs* an IDE 
> > in order to cope with the amount of required boilerplate, then 
> > something is clearly very, very wrong at a fundamental level.
> 
> May be this is true for expert or professional programmers. But 
> for people like me who only use D occasionally an IDE is a must.
> 
> IDE mainly helps me in reducing the amount of things I need to 
> memorize or remember like API, building tool names, command 
> syntaxes, etc. This is very important as my main profession is 
> not programming.
> 
> I think lack of IDEs will prevent many beginners from trying out 
> a new language. Especially after getting spoiled with IDEs like 
> netbeans, visual studio etc.
> 
> Currently using DIDE, not perfect but better than nothing. 
> VisualD seems to have good reviews but I cannot install it as it 
> requires admin privileges.
> 
> All the above will still be true even for a "perfect" programming 
> language.

While that's all true, none of it really contradicts what was said. Ie,
that "The IDE can auto-generate boilerplate" is a very poor excuse for a
language to lack ways of minimizing the need for boilerplate in the
first place.