Walter Bright wrote:
Bill Baxter wrote:
That could be true, but you said the thing that prompted this idea was
enterprise-y customers looking for an enterprise-y IDE. Vim ain't on
that roster.
This thread makes it fairly clear that this idea won't fill the bill for
a full featured IDE. But I think supporting a lightweight one is still
getting us closer.
I completely agree, nobody will code a monster IDE like Eclipse or
Visual Studio dedicated to D anytime soon.
I have only respect for Descent, I use it on linux and it is really
great. But Eclipse is killing me, there is no reason for an IDE to be
that heavy, slow and unresponsive. How come a database server can pull
off any data query from a multi-gigabyte database on disk in half a
millisecond yet Eclipse can't seem to feel responsive when working with
less than a hundred megabytes in system memory. (On that note, D needs a
b-tree module among others :x)
I really feel we need a dedicated D IDE to promote the language, and
such an IDE needs to start somewhere, most only do syntax highlighting
so far, which is trivial to implement. A compiler interface to at least
get semantics information from the source files is therefore a *big*
plus in that direction.
XML output can also be used in so many different ways, for
documentation, bindings, analysis and more. And JSON output can be used
directly from any language with a very lightweight parser.
Besides, this doesn't mean Walter is going to put everything on hold to
implement this feature, I think he only wanted to get feedback on an
idea he had so when he gets time to implement it, he knows what the
community wants.
Jeremie
