On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:15:54 -0700, BLS <[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday, 26 March 2012 at 15:27:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012
mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a
specific interest in the Mono-D project.
Please join me in welcoming Adam to the ranks of GSoC mentors!
Thanks,
Andrei
On 03/26/2012 08:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
We're very happy and honored to had Adam Wilson on board as a GSoC 2012
mentor. Adam brings solid project management experience and has a
specific interest in the Mono-D project.
Please join me in welcoming Adam to the ranks of GSoC mentors!
Thanks,
Andrei
Welcome Adam and congratulation Alex.
I am using Mono-D and I almost enjoy it. One thing is for sure:
Code LookUp /
"Intellisense" is great in Mono-D, ,Code outline simply rox, and
MNono-D is (in this regard) light years ahead of Visual D.
The pure speed in which Alex's code analyzer is working is just
xtreme amazing. Alex ? Benchmarks ?
But it is a GTK# and MONO based project and this means it is
finally a C# project.
I am pretty sure that we will have a complete wxWidgets 2.9.3
binding in a few days/weeks. (and we will have a TOOL to create
almost automatic wxWidgets 2.4. 2.5, 3.0 bindings) incl. say Gtk
3.0 and iOS support)
So. wouldn't make more sense to ask Alex to port and enhance his
code analyzer into D2 as GSOC project to become part of a wxD2
driven IDE ?
I think, Yep.
Despite that,
Alex, thanks for Mono-D, very well done.
My 2 cents, Bjoern
I think that the best thing that we can do right now is to focus on
bringing the parser to completion. It's still missing some key features of
D, especially in terms of code-completion and syntax highlighting. It's
also missing UFCS from 2.058, which is a pretty big deal I think. For a
full list of tasks that Alex would like to get done please see this list:
https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/blob/master/MonoDevelop.DBinding/Remaining%20features.txt
As to an IDE written in D, that's a HUGE project and well outside the
scope of what can be accomplished in a GSoC project. It takes millions of
lines of code to make a *DECENT* IDE. Not to mention that UI design is
something that will always polarize the community, some basically want a
glorified VIM/EMACS while other will settle for nothing less than a Visual
Studio clone, still more people will want a radically different UI from
anything previously seen (I personally am intrigued by Code-Bubbles for
instance). Plus why bother with that when we can integrate into existing
solutions like MonoDevelop or Visual Studio *much* quicker.
I personally think that Mono-D represents the most capable path forward
for D IDE's right now, maybe later that might change as D grows, but for
the moment we need an complete IDE fast, and integration can deliver that.
--
Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
