On 05/11/2013 05:06 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
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. IDE's have lots of other valuable uses.
Two points. One, the person I responded to (and quoted in my reply) said, "Yes, which is why I love D so much. All I need is a text editor and the compiler, and I can do everything."
Second, in the Q&A session of your talk, you said, "I'm sorely tempted to say that real men don't use IDEs..." The fixation on boilerplate as to why people "need" IDEs is just a symptom of the more general sentiment.
