On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 17:11:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 05/16/2017 10:51 AM, Benro wrote:
A quick summary trying to get D and a some IDEs running on a
Windows
environment.
Full-on IDEs always make simple things complicated. If you're
on Windows, I highly recommend Programmer's Notepad 2. Works
great with D out-of-the-box (as well as gobs of other
languages), is lightning-quick and responsive, and highly
configurable.
Sublime Text is equally good, if you don't mind a non-native UI.
If you're ever checking it out on Linux, KDevelop is pretty
decent. Heck, even Kate has built-in D support.
I'm in agreement on that. I used IDEs for a while, but there was
a lot of mental overhead, at least for me. But I can understand
that someone coming from a language like Java would feel that an
IDE is a necessity.
What I find a bit surprising is someone holding up Go as an
example of a language with a good IDE situation. Back when I used
Go (before discovering D) I saw almost exactly the same
discussions. Go had no goods IDEs and it was hurting adoption and
you can't program without an IDE. The responses were pretty much
the same as those here: you don't need an IDE to write Go code.
As an example, there's this thread from 2015, long after I had
moved on from Go:
https://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language-What-is-the-best-IDE-to-use-for-Go
