Two Editor Items

December 29th, 2006 | by Aldacron |

Two recent announcements in the NG, made five minutes apart, are related to writing D code.

The first is for the penguin heads: Jason Mills announced a new version of a D syntax script for vim (shudder). You can get it from the vim website.

The second is for Eclipse fans: Ary Manzana has released version 0.1 of Descent, his D-editor Eclipse plugin. Read more about it on the project wiki.

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3 Responses to “Two Editor Items”

  1. By John on Dec 29, 2006

    I’ve found poseidon to be the best IDE so far but I will try Descent.

  2. By Aldacron on Dec 29, 2006

    I just use Crimson Editor. When we see a true IDE (i.e. one that truly integrates tools) with debugging, profiling, and advanced features like refactoring, packaging, and so on, I might move over to it. Right now, the only D “IDEs” I’ve seen are just editors with some form of project management. Crimson Editor can do that. If Poseidon has built-in debugging, that’s a step up.

  3. By John on Dec 30, 2006

    Well, it doesn’t really have any of those things. Besides the editor itself, syntax highlighting, content assist and project management, it’s pretty bare bones.

    I wonder how long it’ll be before we see a real D IDE. Unfortunately, it’ll probably be a commercial offering before a free one.

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