On 26/03/2012 20:43, Adam Wilson wrote:
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.
I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is simply totally unrealistic. If it's just a D editor with some IDE functionality, sure, someone can toy around and try to work on that, but as for a proper IDE, there is just so much functionality and infrastructure that platforms like Eclipse, Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, Netbeans, etc., provide that is dumb and futile to try replicate all of that in D. There are years of paid, multi-developer teams work behind that infrastructure, and you want one or two guys to replicate that in their free time? Right. We don't even have a mature, fleshed-out D GUI library, let alone IDE infrastructure...
-- Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
