Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Ary Borenszweig wrote:
Unfortunately the designers of D doesn't care at all about IDE support
for their language, even though in any "why don't you use D"
discussion it is mentioned.
The problem is not not caring. For one, I'd love a D IDE as much as the
next guy, but I don't have the resources to put into writing one. IDEs
come with language acceptance and are seldom written by the creator of
the language.
I'm not talking about writing an IDE. I'm talking about when thinking of
a feature, think how this could be supported in an IDE.
For instance properties seem to be a fundamental thing in Delphi and C#.
When you are debugging and you watch some varaible, the debugger
automatically allows you to expand a node and see the varaible's
properties. You can't do that with D because any function that has zero
parameters could be a property, even though some functions aren't
properties.
By the way, we must be doing something right. As of ten days ago there
were 30,800 page views for The Case for D, and I just noticed that in
the past week the presale rate for The D Programming Language has doubled.
Great! :-)
