Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[eles]

On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD is a 
> critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D usage 
> into Microsoft Visual Studio.)

Allow me to support this idea, however to suggest that also add a 
cross-platform IDE/plug-in.

This is important for the Linux world.

Current choices are DDT, for Eclipse and Mono-D, for MonoDevelop.

I would vote for the two for the time being and see how things 
develop.

Official endorsement should increase their visibility, their use 
and, why not, patches.

In the future, they could also be integrated in the installer.

I would also suggest to move DDT on github (Mono-D is already 
there).

All these, of course, only if respective authors agree. I kindly 
ask them to provide their POV.

BTW, kudos to Alexander Bothe and Bruno Medeiros.

For the record, I am a heavy user of Eclipse/CDT on Linux, and my 
colleagues are almost all users of the same, albeit some of them 
on Windows. I could testify for the popularity of IDEs in some 
environments, particularly for Eclipse CDT (although I would 
prefer to have Eclipse and CDT written in D or C/C++, not in 
Java, but this is life...).