On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 10:59:49 UTC, Don Clugston wrote:
Yeah, we still have *miles* to go on the toolchain. As a
community we've been putting most of our effort into getting
the compiler stable, and to a lesser extent working on the the
standard library. Most of the other things are one-man shows.
The Eclipse plugin and DFL have both been abandoned for years.
Mono-D and VisualD are progressing quite well but again they
are only one-man shows.
We need more people.
Agreed. I don't know if I can help much - I'm not an expert on
low-level things like compilers and such, and I do my best work
in .NET; but there may be something I can do. Maybe write a
better IDE, with intellisense, I dunno. It'd have to be .NET
based.
Or maybe I could work with you guys on devising a new DFL. I've
had loads of experience with the .NET standard library for GUIs
(System.Windows.Forms). I don't have much experience in the D
language, but if it was a joint effort, that wouldn't matter so
much. What does everyone think? (Except Jakob, who thinks I'm
ignorant)
