On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 14:49:27 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
Hello all,
Several of us have been talking about Qt Creator and D in
various subthreads of the current IDE-related discussions going
on right now, so I thought it might be worth raising as a
matter of general interest.
My general impression is that this is a fast, light
cross-platform IDE which is (as its name indicates)
state-of-the-art for C++ and Qt development.
Currently it has fairly good D/Ddoc syntax highlighting (it
literally copies the latest d.xml syntax definition file from
KDE's text editor Kate). However, I wasn't able to get things
like auto-indent working, and haven't yet put any serious
effort into investigating build/compiler or debugging support.
It also has a FakeVim mode that enables vim-like editing and
should be able to operate from the local .vimrc settings, but
my brief experiments weren't so far able to get it to reproduce
my current vim behaviour.
The last related discussion that I'm aware of is from about 3
years back, when several D users discussed implementing Qt
Creator support:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/ide/Qt_Creator_with_D_707.html
... but I'm not aware of any follow-up since then.
I'm just wondering how many people would be interested in
seeing better D support in this IDE, and how many people have
more experience or can offer insight into how to proceed.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
It's the best IDE for C++ development I have encountered so far.
And it's the only drawback of DMD making the change to D: I
cannot use it to fix bugs anymore.
