On Monday, 3 September 2018 at 16:55:10 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Most of the work that gets done is the stuff that the folks
contributing think is the most important - frequently what is
most important for them for what they do, and very few (if any)
of the major contributors use or care about IDEs for their own
use. And there's tons to do that has nothing to do with IDEs.
There are folks who care about it enough to work on it, which
is why projects such as VisualD exist at all, and AFAIK, they
work reasonably well, but the only two ways that they're going
to get more work done on them than is currently happening is if
the folks who care about that sort of thing contribute or if
they donate money for it to be worked on. Not long ago, the D
Foundation announced that they were going to use donations to
pay someone to work on his plugin for Visual Studio Code:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/rmqvglgccmgoajmhy...@forum.dlang.org
So, if you want stuff like that to get worked on, then donate
or pitch in.
The situation with D - both with IDEs and in general - has
improved greatly over time even if it may not be where you want
it to be. But if you're ever expecting IDE support to be a top
priority of many of the contributors, then you're going to be
sorely disappointed. It's the sort of thing that we care about
because we care about D being successful, but it's not the sort
of thing that we see any value in whatsoever for ourselves, and
selfish as it may be, when we spend the time to contribute to
D, we're generally going to work on the stuff that we see as
having the most value for getting done what we care about. And
there's a lot to get done which impacts pretty much every D
user and not just those who want something that's IDE-related.
- Jonathan M Davis
The complaints I have is exactly why I'm myself maintaining
plugins for VSCode, Atom, and others soon. Don't worry, I still
think D is worth putting some time and effort into and I know
actions generally get more things done than words.
I also know that tons of stuff is yet to be done in regards to
the actual compilers and such.
It just baffles me a bit to see the state of D in this
department, when languages like Go or Rust (hooray for yet
another comparison to Go and Rust) are a lot younger, but already
have what looks like very good tooling.
Then again they do have major industry players backing them
though...
