End user experience with D

[Ramon]

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 04:00:37 UTC, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> IMHO, the IDE should only be a wrapper around the core 
> functionality and never be so closely integrated that the core 
> is unusable without the IDE.  Personally, I just like using a 
> configurable editor (e.g.  Geany, emacs and so on) which knows 
> (or can be taught) how to do various useful things that an IDE 
> might offer.
>
> If you want an IDE then create one but make it an "add on" and 
> don't expect everyone to use it.
>
> Cheers
> Peter
> PS I especially hate IDEs that try to force me to create 
> "projects".
> PPS I especially like IDEs that have built in terminal editors 
> so that you can do command line stuff without the need for a 
> separate window.

I perfectly agree. An IDE should be optional - but it should
exist.

And btw: With IDE I don't necessarily mean a fully blown Eclipse
like thing. A smart developer oriented editor (like Geany) with a
reasonable interface to a *working* debugger is good enough.