On 10/13/2011 01:37 AM, J Arrizza wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. Seems straightforward enough:
1) Phobos is it.
2) DMD is the clear winner
3) Eclipse is a hog - knew that. I really only like a couple of things
in it. A big one for me is the source formatting. For some reason,
having to hit the space bar 4,000 times every hour just isn't my cup of
tea.
The formatter for java set a nice high standard for configurability that
I was hoping a D plug-in would also have. I had issues with installing
descent on Linux (worked ok in windows for some reason), but I'll give
it another shot on Indigo. If that doesn't play, I'll stick with
UltraEdit (great editor, got a life-time license for it).
John
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2011-10-13 01:43, J Arrizza wrote:
Hi,
I'm just starting out in D, read the book, tried a Hello World, and
wrote a few unit tests. I'm ready for the next step.
I'd like to begin writing some more complex D code which I want
to use
not only as a test bed to investigate D itself to a deeper level
but if
it's successful to eventually use it as the beginnings of a
toolkit for
our internal use.
I'm looking for some recommendations from folks with lots of
experience
in D:
1) Which to use: Phobos, Tango, or Tangobos? It makes sense for
us to
use D2 so this seems to preclude Tango for now. Correct?
Most people will definitely say D2 and Phobos. I still think Tango
is better and for the time being that means D1. I also think that
some parts of D2 is not quite ready yet.
Are there plans to merge or standardize on one of these? Phobos and
Tango seem to be incompatible with each other at this point.
Yes, Tango and Phobos are incompatible. There are someone/a couple
of people working on porting Tango to D2. I think that port will use
druntime, meaning it will be compatible with Phobos.
My worry here is if we choose the wrong underlying library we end up
having to re-write a lot of code later on.
2) Which compiler? DMD, GDC or something else? We use Ubuntu
10.04, 64
bit as our development platform. I'm assuming the gc is in all the D
compilers.
DMD is a good compiler for development. It's the fastest available D
compiler (as far as I know). It's always up to date, LDC and GDC can
be a release behind DMD. I don't know what's best for production. I
usually hear people saying that LDC and GDC is better than DMD but I
haven't done any benchmarking myself.
3) DDT (eclipse plugin) seems relatively green. Any other
suggestions
for an IDE. Not a big deal for us, but it's nice to have source
formatting. The DDT folks indicated that that feature is a long
way off
for them.
There's an older plugin for Eclipse called Descent. It has source
formatting and a couple of more nice and interesting features, like
compile time debugging. I also shows both syntax and semantic errors
(semantic errors are disable by default). I still uses this plugin
but I can be quite slow and unfortunate it's not maintained anymore.
I still recommend you take a look at it.
http://dsource.org/projects/__descent
<http://dsource.org/projects/descent>
Otherwise I use TextMate on Mac OS X. There's also a similar
application called E (text editor) available on Windows (in the
works for Linux too). It's compatible with TextMate's bundles.
Thanks,
John
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John
blog: http://arrizza.blogspot.com/
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VIM + gnu make has done everything I've needed it to do so far, but the
biggest project I've done so far was only ~10k lines long.
