== Quote from JC ([email protected])'s article > I am considering trying NetBeans for all of my development. I have been using > Eclipse, but have found that I am only using it because of its project > interface > and its language highlight support (which sometimes doesn't work). > This brings me to my question: I know that NetBeans will work for PHP and C++, > the other two languages I use, but is there a way to get it to work with D? > Thanks, > JC
AFAIK, no, but if you could create a plugin for it, I would be forever grateful. A few months ago, I crossed over to the dark side and wrote a very small (1-day) project in Java because it had a library that I really needed. Despite despising everything else about the language (I had never used Java before this), I was thoroughly amazed by the power of NetBeans. The experience made me understand why people use Java: As much as Java the core language sucks, the IDEs for it are so good that they're almost metaprogramming facilities that write a bunch of your more tedious Java code for you. Of course, I wouldn't trade D templates for it, but if C++'s relatively weak templates were the tradeoff, I might consider it. If something half this good were created for D, it would be a huge step toward getting D accepted by the wider community.
