On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 14:35:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:19:27AM +0200, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 07:08:08 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
>
>You can use this tool to automatically generate bindings to C
>libraries:
>
>https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
>
Great stuff, Jacob! Congratulations.
One thing that is usually not mentioned in articles about D is
that
you don't need an IDE to develop in D. This was, if I remember
it
correctly, one of the design goals.
Was it a design goal? If so, kudos to Walter. :) Because one of
my
criteria for a better programming language when I decided that
I was fed
up with C++ and needed something better, was that it must not
have undue
reliance on an IDE or some other external tool to be usable.
Thus, Java
was disqualified (too much boilerplate that can't be adequately
handled
without an IDE -- of course, there were other factors, but this
was a
big one). It must be usable with just a text editor and a
compiler. D
fit that criterion rather nicely. :)
T
I don't know if it's still on the website here somewhere. But I
remember reading (2 years or so ago) that D shouldn't require a
big IDE but should be manageable using a text editor and a
compiler. And it is true. So far, I haven't used an IDE for my D
programming.
