On Sunday, 8 December 2013 at 01:34:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/7/2013 4:46 PM, Manu wrote:
True as compared to C, but I wouldn't say this is true in
general.
C# and Java make it easy to refactor code rapidly. D doesn't
have any such tools
yet.
It's my #1 wishlist item for VisualD and Mono-D, and I await
such tooling with
great anticipation.
Maybe when the D front-end is a library, and tooling has such
powerful (and
reliable) semantic analysis as the compiler does it may be
possible?
Needing a tool to refactor code is a bit of a mystery to me.
I've never used one, and never felt that not having one
inhibited me from refactoring.
I used to think that until I tried rope in Emacs for editing
Python code. After that I wanted proper refactorign for
everything else as well. Renaming doesn't require checks,
extracting a method is just easy... it's saved me a _lot_ of time
and I just couldn't imagine having done some of the work I did
without it.
