On 13/06/2013 10:05, Don wrote:
On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 08:25:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 08:16:56 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
Visual Studio constantly crashes for me at work, and I can imagine
MonoDevelop and Eclipse being similar, but simpler editors like
Sublime Text, TextMate, vim, emacs etc. shouldn't crash. I've been
using Sublime Text for years now and I don't think it has ever crashed.
I am quite surprised to hear this is an issue at all btw. Neither
Mono-D nor Eclipse DDT have never crashed for me on my smallish
sources. And I just can't imagine D syntax highlighting crashing vim
or emacs :)
Mono-D has had update issues thanks to MonoDevelop upstream but that
is somewhat different story.
Mono-D and Eclipse DDT both have major problems with long pauses while
typing (eg 15 seconds unresponsive) and crashes. Both of them even have
"modules of death" where just viewing the file will cause a crash. If
you're unlucky enough to get one of those open in your default workspace
file, the IDE will crash at startup...
Regarding DDT, do you mean a crash were actually the Eclipse application
terminates? I find that highly unlikely, the whole codebase of Eclipse
DDT is Java based so there should not be a crash like that (baring some
old JVM bug, but even so...).
A freeze is possible, if there's some infinite loop bug, or some massive
slowdown due to a crappy algorithm (quadratic growth or worse)
As a DDT maintaner I've never had a bug report, or even heard of such
crashes. I can't guess people's minds..., and I skip most newsgroups
threads if the title doesn't seem relevant. It was actually only by
chance that I found this subthread discussing IDEs.
I have heard about long pauses and delays, that I have. It's something
that needs to be looked at, it's a massive issue. Even so I've never had
any concrete bug report on such performance issues. Or even someone
mentioned a concrete file I could take a look at and see if using
autocomplete there was slow and unresponsive.
My work on a new parser for DDT is nearly complete, a new version should
be out soonish. And from now onwards it should be possible to tackle
these issues.
I do agree frequent crashes and long pauses should take precedence over
nearly all other issues.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
