Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:42 -0500, Jeremie Pelletier wrote: > It's been some time since I last posted to this newsgroup, I've been > quite busy these past weeks! > > Among other things, I started writing an IDE for D from scratch and > opened a SourceForge project for it a few minutes ago, I'll also open a > dsource project to link to the sf one in the following days. > > At first I tried to code it in D using wxD but soon found out the > limitations of these bindings, then I tried to write my own wxWidgets > bindings which worked great until i realized I was leaking memory like > hell and had a hard time linking garbage collected D objects to C++ > reference counted objects without adding complex overhead. > > So after spending two weeks on these failed attempts, I jumped back into > C++ after two years of almost only writing D code, this time using > boost, and boy is that library sweet! > > Here is the (very simple) website of the project, with a screenshot of > the program so far, the content is hard coded for now to test the custom > editor painting routines. > > http://codepoet.sourceforge.net
Is there some reason why you didn't built your IDE on top of some existing open source IDE like kdevelop? Also built with C++ and uses a modern GUI library. You would only need to plug in the dmdfe, a build system, and add some D related GUI functionality.
