On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 12:21:24 UTC, rjframe wrote:
As a followup to [0], I want to take a look at packaging
DlangIDE with a DMD compiler and tools, so we have an
out-of-the box IDE for people giving D a try. This would be
independent of the rest of the system, so moving on (either to
Visual Studio, ldc, gdc, or whatever the programmer's preferred
IDE/tooling might be) would require re-installing the compiler.
Most of this post will be Windows-centric, but if this is
popular/useful/ successful I'd also manage macOS and Linux kits.
Basically, in the two years or so I've been here, newcomers
have consistently had IDE problems. visual-d is perfect if
you've got Visual Studio (especially with recent improvements),
but otherwise you have to spend a bunch of time getting
something set up just to try a language you're not yet sure
about.
Some sort of learner's or starter's IDE makes sense to me.
My hypothetical programmer follows the path:
1) Discovers website. Runs some examples.
2) Plays with the online compiler in the tour.
3) Wants to download a compiler to work with. Wants an IDE, but
does not
have Visual Studio installed (or maybe doesn't want to
install an
extension yet).
4) Downloads the starter pack and starts learning.
5) Falls in love and takes the time to set up D with his/her
preferred
toolset.
Actually nowadays if DMD is already setup, Coedit doesn't require
more configuration. Completion, all DCD features, and D-Scanner
warnings just work out of the box since the tools are distributed
with the IDE. In a way Coedit is already a "starter pack" and
since a while.
I don't know why but in this kind of topics it's never mentioned,
however since version 2 i can find testimonials showing that it
works out of the box:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/tiyuogdlwwoqpckvk...@forum.dlang.org
