Moving back to .NET

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 25/09/2015 14:54, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 13:13:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 11:24:04 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>> Dunno if "expect" is the right word, but a language team that puts
>>> IDE support as part of its development effort, will have a big
>>> competitive advantage.
>>
>> Indeed, when you are production ready having a top notch IDE becomes a
>> big competitive advantage! I don't know if an IDE attracts people who
>> work on compilers/debuggers though...
>>
>>> and basic tools). For example, they contracted an external developer
>>> to help them with debugger issues
>>
>> Sure, excellent debugging support (lldb/gdb) is important.
>
> Having followed this forum for 2 or 3 years now, I doubt whether an IDE
> would attract people at this stage. If we had a full-fledged IDE, there
> would be other concerns (or excuses). D scares people away. It's too
> raw, too bare bones, everything is still moving like hot lava, and maybe
> people are intimidated by it, because they feel they might be considered
> bad programmers, if they don't know the ins and outs of it.

I agree with the first sentence: "Having followed this forum for 2 or 3 
years now, I doubt whether an IDE would attract people at this stage."

Current D IDE's are far from the level of Eclipse CDT or VisualStudio, 
but they're not too bad either, they're pretty decent. This wasn't the 
case, say 5 years ago. If was to code in D 5 years ago, the issue that 
would be most troublesome would be IDE quality. Not so much nowadays. D 
IDEs have advanced enough that deficiencies in other tools become more 
important instead (this is very subjective of course, and depends also 
on one's work environment and area of development.)

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Bruno Medeiros
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