On Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 21:06:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/11/2013 1:07 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
I can get by with a hammer and nails too, but if I was a
professional roofer I'd
be an idiot not to use a nail gun. That's the problem with all
this focus on
boilerplate. An IDE does so much more to make you productive
in any language,
especially one that has static types.
I didn't say an IDE was bad for D, I only said that if you need
an IDE to generate boilerplate for you, then there's something
wrong with the language.
I keep repeating myself, but this is true, unless the boilerplate
is here for the very reason of IDE integration.
Stupid inexpressive language are easier to write tools for, this
is the very reason why java have such a great tooling.
IDE's have lots of other valuable uses.
