On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-05-18 19:20, Bruno Medeiros wrote: > > 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... >> >> > Half of Eclipse is ported to D :) > > https://github.com/d-widget-**toolkit<https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit>
Half of Eclipse ~4-6 years ago ported to D. That certainly doesn't make it not useful, but DWT hasn't managed to keep up with Eclipse.
