On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 22:10:57 UTC, solnce wrote:
Personally I feel this is more about lack of the vision, as Alexandrescu once said. Now it feels like D is mostly the compiler, but I think, that having one big mega project (like IDE+RAD) could give a new breath and significance to D language.
There's absolutely no need for an IDE to be written in D (particularly one that supports RAD -- what would that use? GtkD?). For one thing, it's a massive project for which the D team does not have the resources to achieve. For another, there are already several popular IDEs and text editors for which plugins have been developed by community members. It would be a waste of time and energy for the D team to work on an IDE project.
If someone is inspired to write an IDE in D (and some have been in the past), nothing is stopping them.
