On 03.12.2012 13:43, Oliver Plow wrote:
On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 11:12:48 UTC, Mirko Pilger wrote:
I used Visual D when I looked at D some months ago. Visual D is not so
bad, but doesn't work with Visual Studio Express and the full Version of
Visual Studio does cost a bit of money...
don't forget that visual d and all its features work with the visual
studio shells which are available for free. no need for the express or
full versions.
Hi Mirko,
I'm from the Java camp and am not familiar with Visual Studio. Those
shells have no UI, do they? Those "ordinary application developers like
me" always first ask for an IDE before they look at some language. Maybe
I will never become a real D systems programmer ... ;-).
The VS Shells are the complete Visual Studio IDE, but stripped of
language support, such as VC++ or C#. Installing Visual D on top of it,
you get the full environment for D including debugger.
Thanks for your reply, but seriously: a D plugin for IDEA would give D a
boost. I don't know with IntelliJ wold do that without asking for money,
but I guess they wold be very helpful at least. IDEA also exists for Mac
and Linux by the way.
I guess it depends on where you are coming from. C++/C# developers will
feel at home with Visual Studio, Java developers are used to other IDEs.
