On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeremie Pelletier wrote: >> >> I also agree with Walter about the lack of an IDE for D as powerful as >> Visual Studio, I myself use poseidon only because of its overly simple build >> process and simple project manager and debug in windbg. But that isn't the >> case with most programmers who like or dislike a language based on the IDE >> they use. > > I do hear over and over that without a VS workalike IDE, programmers just > aren't interested in a language. They argue, probably with a lot of merit, > that the productivity increase of using VS is more than the productivity > increase of using a better language. > > It's clear Microsoft has hit a home run with VS. > > I was talking to some serious hardcore C++ programmers yesterday. One was a > die-hard emacs user, and he admitted that he'd switched to VS and wasn't > looking back, it was that much better. I asked him what the killer feature > of VS was, and he said it was being able to instantly see every use and > definition of a symbol. > > (With emacs he'd have to run ctags first, and even then ctags was inaccurate > and clumsy.)
Yep, and being able to jump to the definitions of things instantly without rooting around through a bunch of source files where you think you remembered seeing it. Or which sound promising based on the name of the file. But I think Descent can now do this kind of thing to some extent. It seems to be getting better and better all the time. --bb
