Qt Creator and D

[Henning Pohl]

On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 14:49:27 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Several of us have been talking about Qt Creator and D in 
> various subthreads of the current IDE-related discussions going 
> on right now, so I thought it might be worth raising as a 
> matter of general interest.
>
> My general impression is that this is a fast, light 
> cross-platform IDE which is (as its name indicates) 
> state-of-the-art for C++ and Qt development.
>
> Currently it has fairly good D/Ddoc syntax highlighting (it 
> literally copies the latest d.xml syntax definition file from 
> KDE's text editor Kate).  However, I wasn't able to get things 
> like auto-indent working, and haven't yet put any serious 
> effort into investigating build/compiler or debugging support.
>
> It also has a FakeVim mode that enables vim-like editing and 
> should be able to operate from the local .vimrc settings, but 
> my brief experiments weren't so far able to get it to reproduce 
> my current vim behaviour.
>
> The last related discussion that I'm aware of is from about 3 
> years back, when several D users discussed implementing Qt 
> Creator support:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/ide/Qt_Creator_with_D_707.html
>
> ... but I'm not aware of any follow-up since then.
>
> I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in 
> seeing better D support in this IDE, and how many people have 
> more experience or can offer insight into how to proceed.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>     -- Joe

It's the best IDE for C++ development I have encountered so far. 
And it's the only drawback of DMD making the change to D: I 
cannot use it to fix bugs anymore.