Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:05:28 -0500, Jeremie Pelletier wrote: > retard wrote: >> 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. > > Where's the challenge and fun in that?
Of course it's less challenging and a bit less fun, but some of us just want to get the job done. As a IDE user I don't really care if it was fun to write the IDE, a production quality tool is the only thing that matters. I wouldn't pay for rewriting something that already existed. OTOH I would gladly pay for a decent plugin to my favorite IDE. > > I want a standalone IDE so I get complete freedom in how I code the > thing, I also want to make it easy to port to D in the future. Certainly.
