"Adam Wilson" wrote in message news:[email protected]... Building a new IDE won't solve this problem. Here we need to focus on
building better tools for D, turning DMD itself into a library or Compiler-as-a-Service in the current lingo, since libraries are now "services". D needs to make great strides in tooling to be relevant, we need first-class debugging, and they need to support more than the terminal. We need D as library, we need better IDE integrations.
I don't know if you've been following recent activity on the compiler, but we are finally making progress in this direction. One of the things on my todo list (after the switch to D is complete) is to start making the lexer/parser usable outside the compiler.
We need a broader standard library. We need more bindings for existing libraries. We need more new libraries (like the Aurora library I am working on).
I'm starting to think phobos should not exist in its current form, and it should just be a set of 'officially blessed' dub packages that meet certain usefulness, API, performance and stability criteria.
