On 2012-03-27 00:00, Adam Wilson wrote:
Mono is over a million, Visual Studio is almost as much as the Windows Kernel (5m+ IIRC), and Eclipse ... well I don't what they are doing wrong over there but the bloat is epic. In other words, a good IDE is a massively complicated beast. Integrations are much quicker and we don't have to reinvent the wheel all over the place.
I agree that an writing an IDE will be a massive project. But it doesn't have to be as complicated as Eclipse or MonoDevelop. These support plugins to add support for new languages, Eclipse contains support for UML diagrams and similar things. Not something that is needed to make a fully usable D IDE.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
