I am along standing advocate of Open source and love the 'D' language. It is much better than C#.

At work I have to use VisualStudio 2008 with C#. Although I am not keen on C# the IDE has got to be the benchmark for all IDE's.

It can be slow and resource hungry but the functionality is amazing. Life as a programmer is so much easier with VisualStudio. Unless you can compete with the functionality in VisualStudio then however good the language is you will never get the mainstream away from MS.

I want a good 'D' based IDE that can compete with VisualStudio.

David Orchard schrieb:
> I am along standing advocate of Open source and love the 'D' language. It is much better than C#.
> 
> At work I have to use VisualStudio 2008 with C#. Although I am not keen on C# the IDE has got to be the benchmark for all IDE's.
> 
> It can be slow and resource hungry but the functionality is amazing. Life as a programmer is so much easier with VisualStudio. Unless you can compete with the functionality in VisualStudio then however good the language is you will never get the mainstream away from MS.
> 
> I want a good 'D' based IDE that can compete with VisualStudio.

My vision of this is, to increase the scope of DWT2 to be able to include the eclipse workbench stuff and create a D port of Descent. Perhaps you want to help? :)

This means re-writing eclipse in D? Can we make useful changes? The workspaces in eclipese are a catchall environment for eclipse, and I regularly laugh at our java developers since they can't check their workspaces in - in a meaningful way.

Frank Benoit wrote:
> David Orchard schrieb:
>> I am along standing advocate of Open source and love the 'D' language. It is
>> much better than C#.
>>
>> At work I have to use VisualStudio 2008 with C#. Although I am not keen on C#
>> the IDE has got to be the benchmark for all IDE's.
>>
>> It can be slow and resource hungry but the functionality is amazing. Life as a
>> programmer is so much easier with VisualStudio. Unless you can compete with
>> the functionality in VisualStudio then however good the language is you will
>> never get the mainstream away from MS.
>>
>> I want a good 'D' based IDE that can compete with VisualStudio.
> 
> My vision of this is, to increase the scope of DWT2 to be able to
> include the eclipse workbench stuff and create a D port of Descent.
> Perhaps you want to help? :)

On Sat, 02 May 2009 18:22:54 +0100, Spacen Jasset wrote:

> This means re-writing eclipse in D? Can we make useful changes? The workspaces in eclipese are a catchall environment for eclipse, and I regularly laugh at our java developers since they can't check their workspaces in - in a meaningful way.

Actually it would mean compiling Eclipse with dmd, since most of DWT2 is the same as SWT. Of course it is never that easy.