I know this is a perennial question, but I thought I'd ask again to see if the answer has changed.

I am pissed off with CodeBlocks, since it seems difficult to install the latest version without the possibility of breaking your existing one (10.04). I don't want to go there, since despite its annoying bugs, it lets me work on my project, and I want to continue to do that.

I quite like Bluefish, but the situation there is even worse. An attempt to install 2.2.4 from the repo suggested on their web site offers to install 2.5 beta.

I could revert to Gedit and a makefile, but it has really rudimentary facilities for marking blocks of code, or for duplicating them.

Eclipse is sooo slow - Java I presume. That's reserved for Android development, which I'm off at the moment.

I don't have Visual Studio, so the plug-in for that is out.

Maybe MonoDevelop, but the blurb for that uses terms like ASP.NET, which immediately puts me off.

What am I missing?

Thanks Steve

On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:00:48 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> I know this is a perennial question, but I thought I'd ask again to see if the answer has changed.
>
> I am pissed off with CodeBlocks, since it seems difficult to install the latest version without the possibility of breaking your existing one (10.04). I don't want to go there, since despite its annoying bugs, it lets me work on my project, and I want to continue to do that.
>
> I quite like Bluefish, but the situation there is even worse. An attempt to install 2.2.4 from the repo suggested on their web site offers to install 2.5 beta.
>
> I could revert to Gedit and a makefile, but it has really rudimentary facilities for marking blocks of code, or for duplicating them.
>
> Eclipse is sooo slow - Java I presume. That's reserved for Android development, which I'm off at the moment.
>
> I don't have Visual Studio, so the plug-in for that is out.
>
> Maybe MonoDevelop, but the blurb for that uses terms like ASP.NET, which immediately puts me off.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks Steve

I use monoD and it is by far the best IDE for D that I have tried, I have tried to mess with Visual D on 3 different occasions but I have never got it working properly and I didn't want to use eclipse either as it is kinda bloated. Its super simple as well, just get monoDevelop running and download the D plugin from the plugin manager, set your paths and your done.

On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:00:48 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
>
> I don't have Visual Studio, so the plug-in for that is out.

You can download Visual Studio Shell. It's free, it just comes without any compilers or language support whatsoever. VisualD happily installs on that.

MonoDevelop + plugin is actually quite nice too.

> What am I missing?

If you're not against just an editor (not a full blown IDE): Sublime Text.

Oh and... about installing codeblocks. Doesn't it come in portable package anymore?

On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:09:16 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:

> I use monoD and it is by far the best IDE for D that I have tried, I have tried to mess with Visual D on 3 different occasions but I have never got it working properly and I didn't want to use eclipse either as it is kinda bloated. Its super simple as well, just get monoDevelop running and download the D plugin from the plugin manager, set your paths and your done.

OK, I looked again, but for Ubuntu, the latest version offered on the monoD web site is 2 major versions old. That does not encourage me.

After a while with Mono, I'm eagerly awaiting DDT integrating with Dub and going back to Eclipse. It isn't that slow if your computer isn't. No, really. And there are things you can do to the initialization file that sometimes cuts the loading time down to something manageable. And while starting it can last you a lifetime on a bad day, unlike certain other editors that start instantly, it doesn't crash all the time.

Mono is... kinda meh. It's very nice when it works. It works most of the time. But when it doesn't it's like fighting the tides. It's not even Mono-D that is bad, it's the editor itself that sucks. Cascades of null pointer exceptions accompanied by popups that I don't know how to disable, sometimes following every single keystroke kills productivity. I don't even get how or why or when it resets.

On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 18:00 +0000, Steve Teale wrote:
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> 
> What am I missing?

Emacs + D-Mode with Bash and SCons ?

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On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:00:48 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> What am I missing?
Personally I'm on vim + dub. Perhaps it won't be enough when my codebases grow out of control, but perhaps by that time I'll be able to use hackerpilot's work on DCD =)

On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:00:48 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> I could revert to Gedit and a makefile, but it has really rudimentary facilities for marking blocks of code, or for duplicating them.

I use Programmer's Notepad. What are facilities you're talking about?

Mono-D is best of IDE's in my opinion, but it is only viable if you are on bleeding edge distro or fine with manually building latest Mono-Develop version.

I personally just use vim most the time and keep forgetting to check out DScanner/DCD plugin for it :)

back in 2010 i was happy with geany but i was using it like gedit. right now i'm going with emacs and d-mode. i'm very happy with it.

On Saturday, January 25, 2014, Francesco Cattoglio < francesco.cattoglio@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:00:48 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
>
>> What am I missing?
>>
> Personally I'm on vim + dub. Perhaps it won't be enough when my codebases grow out of control, but perhaps by that time I'll be able to use hackerpilot's work on DCD =)
>


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