Dscanner - DCD - Dfix ... Editor support or the lack of it.

[Benny]

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 07:08:50 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
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> Take this all with a grain of salt: I have only tested this on 
> Linux and OS X, I have no clue about the situation on Windows.

In general a lot of plugins tend to work better in POSIX systems 
then Windows. I think its more a issue about Windows platform 
testing.

> But at least my experience was really good, so I'd like to use 
> this opportunity to thank all the authors of the plugins and 
> the underlying tools for doing this (ungrateful) work (and in 
> my opinion doing it very well). I know that probably a lot has 
> still to be done, but the state of affairs is not as bad as all 
> the complaints make it sounds.

It probably is not as bad but its clearly a issue anyway.

But one guy complaining after trying 6 or 7 times over a year+ ( 
with constant reporting the issues ), probably means there are 
more people out there who tried and simply gave up without 
reporting the issues.

> The reasons for the problems you describe still being so common 
> have already explained thoroughly by others: Its mainly that 
> there are no paid developers working on it and therefore not 
> enough people working on it. So the solution is actullay quite 
> simple and it is the same answer that most complaints about 
> problems with D get: Either do it yourself, or pay somebody to 
> do it. That is the quickest way to fix things.

And that is the same issue with a lot of FOSS languages. But at 
one moment one needs to say stop.

I donated a lot ( for me anyway ) of money to different FOSS 
projects but that money, what happened to it? In general there is 
zero accountability where money gets spend on most projects. Just 
in the last month over 500$ on different projects. But i am not a 
infinity money machine.

And in this case:

Does one donate money to the Code-D/Serve-D developer. But its 
not really his issue.
To the D-Language developer? But its not really his issue.

Who do you even donate too to have specific problems that are 
hard to trace fixed. Its not like one asks: "Please add x 
functionality".

Just recently i donated 100$ to a other language project to 
implement socket support. So far i see nothing happening, while 
this functionality is more important to me now ( as it blocks my 
progress on that project ). So even when donating the results can 
be "i feel ripped off".

Do it yourself = Time is money. If i had that much time to learn 
the base code of a language, i will not be donating money to 
specific language projects ( also i'am not a good core / system 
programmer ).

I feel its too many times: Complain about issue => Get responds 
there are no people to do it => Please do it yourself or pay.

By that logic i am bankrupt tomorrow with the issues i face in 
different languages :)

Let me not bother you too much with my rants. Like i said, its 
better ( for me ) to focus on a language that has things better 
worked out and it does not feel like screaming at the walls. I 
feel sorry for projects like this that have no big corporate 
backers because its not a envy position without the money and 
focus.