On Fri, 10 May 2013 21:55:57 +0200 "sk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In any case, I totally agree that if a language *needs* an IDE > > in order to cope with the amount of required boilerplate, then > > something is clearly very, very wrong at a fundamental level. > > May be this is true for expert or professional programmers. But > for people like me who only use D occasionally an IDE is a must. > > IDE mainly helps me in reducing the amount of things I need to > memorize or remember like API, building tool names, command > syntaxes, etc. This is very important as my main profession is > not programming. > > I think lack of IDEs will prevent many beginners from trying out > a new language. Especially after getting spoiled with IDEs like > netbeans, visual studio etc. > > Currently using DIDE, not perfect but better than nothing. > VisualD seems to have good reviews but I cannot install it as it > requires admin privileges. > > All the above will still be true even for a "perfect" programming > language. While that's all true, none of it really contradicts what was said. Ie, that "The IDE can auto-generate boilerplate" is a very poor excuse for a language to lack ways of minimizing the need for boilerplate in the first place.
