On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> wrote:
On 2012-05-18 19:20, Bruno Medeiros wrote:

I agree, this idea to write a proper, *fully-featured* IDE in D is
simply totally unrealistic. If it's just a D editor with some IDE
functionality, sure, someone can toy around and try to work on that, but
as for a proper IDE, there is just so much functionality and
infrastructure that platforms like Eclipse, Visual Studio, MonoDevelop,
Netbeans, etc., provide that is dumb and futile to try replicate all of
that in D. There are years of paid, multi-developer teams work behind
that infrastructure, and you want one or two guys to replicate that in
their free time? Right.
We don't even have a mature, fleshed-out D GUI library, let alone IDE
infrastructure...


Half of Eclipse is ported to D :)

https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit

Half of Eclipse ~4-6 years ago ported to D.
That certainly doesn't make it not useful, but DWT hasn't managed to keep up with Eclipse.