New Project Round-up
November 15th, 2006 | by Aldacron |I was waiting for DSource to come back up before continuing with my missed announcements. Now, it is. So, now I am.
The D Shared Software System (DSSS) was announced by Gregor Richards a few days ago. It’s a really ambitious project that builds on bud “to create a standardized system for building, installing, configuring, acquiring and using D software”. I haven’t used it yet, but I certainly intend to give it a look-see. Be sure to visit the project forum for help and feedback.
Also recently announced is Bill Baxter’s Luigi, “a platform-independent native-D OpenGL-based GUI drawing library”. There’s not yet anything to download, but you can read about it on the project page. Hopefully, Bill will change his mind about reading the project forum now that DSource seems to be exponentially snappier than before.
Another new project at DSource is Ary Manzana’s Descent, a new Eclipse plugin for D. An interesting approach being taken with this project is that the DMD front-end is being ported to Java. Wow. Ever since I wrote my first line of D code I’ve been using Crimson Editor in conjunction with the command prompt. None of the Eclipse plugins or other IDE extensions have really done it for me. But I’m suddenly looking forward to this project. I’m firmly entrenched in the Eclipse camp for Java development and, as much as I love CE, would be quite happy to see a solid, full-featured, stable plugin for D. Don’t forget to visit the Descent forum.
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