Ary Borenszweig Wrote: > 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.
While working on QtD I have also come up with the conclusion that D needs proper properties. Qt itself greatly relies on properties and it makes a lot of cool things possible. Of course C++ doesn't support them, it is done via Qt metatype system. When D goes popular, IDEs will severely lack this functionality from the language.
