On Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 19:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
Recent threads here have made it pretty clear that VisualD is a
critical piece of D infrastructure. (VisualD integrated D usage
into Microsoft Visual Studio.)
Allow me to support this idea, however to suggest that also add a
cross-platform IDE/plug-in.
This is important for the Linux world.
Current choices are DDT, for Eclipse and Mono-D, for MonoDevelop.
I would vote for the two for the time being and see how things
develop.
Official endorsement should increase their visibility, their use
and, why not, patches.
In the future, they could also be integrated in the installer.
I would also suggest to move DDT on github (Mono-D is already
there).
All these, of course, only if respective authors agree. I kindly
ask them to provide their POV.
BTW, kudos to Alexander Bothe and Bruno Medeiros.
For the record, I am a heavy user of Eclipse/CDT on Linux, and my
colleagues are almost all users of the same, albeit some of them
on Windows. I could testify for the popularity of IDEs in some
environments, particularly for Eclipse CDT (although I would
prefer to have Eclipse and CDT written in D or C/C++, not in
Java, but this is life...).
