On Sunday, 12 May 2013 at 03:58:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
The nicest thing of all, IMO, about not strictly needing all
that
support software is that basic things like
editing/navigating/opening/closing code is always and forever
100%
unobstructed by things like startup delays and keyboard input
lag which
have no business existing on the rocket-engined supercomputers
we now
call "a PC".
I'm using a little known IDE for D known as Poseidon:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/poseidon/wiki/Screenshots
it is very fast, loads very quickly, and the editor is very
responsive. The keyword autocompletion is mostly broken in D2 but
I can live without it. It is a bit sad that it has gone
unmantained for more than a year.
These are the things that I cannot live without for my big D2
project:
- Syntax highlighting.
- Tree like structure for navigating all the many source
files of my project.
- Search in multiple files.
- Debugging (breakpoints, step by step, go to line that
crashed). It suprisingly still works in Poseidon.
- Can go to file/line when double-clicking on compiler error.
- Compile/run/debug just by hitting SHIFT-F5, and other keys.
- No need for a makefile. It feeds all source files
(hundreds) and libraries to dmd.
For smaller D projects I use Vim/makefiles though.
Again, I'm a bit sad that it has gone unmantained for so long,
but it's totally usable still. This is the faster IDE that I've
found.
--jm
