[RFC] IDE starter kit

[b4s1L3 b.]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 12:21:24 UTC, rjframe wrote:
> As a followup to [0], I want to take a look at packaging 
> DlangIDE with a DMD compiler and tools, so we have an 
> out-of-the box IDE for people giving D a try. This would be 
> independent of the rest of the system, so moving on (either to 
> Visual Studio, ldc, gdc, or whatever the programmer's preferred 
> IDE/tooling might be) would require re-installing the compiler.
>
> Most of this post will be Windows-centric, but if this is 
> popular/useful/ successful I'd also manage macOS and Linux kits.
>
>
> Basically, in the two years or so I've been here, newcomers 
> have consistently had IDE problems. visual-d is perfect if 
> you've got Visual Studio (especially with recent improvements), 
> but otherwise you have to spend a bunch of time getting 
> something set up just to try a language you're not yet sure 
> about.
>
> Some sort of learner's or starter's IDE makes sense to me.
>
> My hypothetical programmer follows the path:
>
> 1) Discovers website. Runs some examples.
> 2) Plays with the online compiler in the tour.
> 3) Wants to download a compiler to work with. Wants an IDE, but 
> does not
>    have Visual Studio installed (or maybe doesn't want to 
> install an
>    extension yet).
> 4) Downloads the starter pack and starts learning.
> 5) Falls in love and takes the time to set up D with his/her 
> preferred
>    toolset.
>

Actually nowadays if DMD is already setup, Coedit doesn't require 
more configuration. Completion, all DCD features, and D-Scanner 
warnings just work out of the box since the tools are distributed 
with the IDE. In a way Coedit is already a "starter pack" and 
since a while.

I don't know why but in this kind of topics it's never mentioned, 
however since version 2 i can find testimonials showing that it 
works out of the box:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/tiyuogdlwwoqpckvkdpn@forum.dlang.org