An Interview with BLS

September 6th, 2007 | by Aldacron |

Björn Lietz-Spendig, better known in D-land as BLS, is working on an IDE that will work with Java, D and MiniD. There’s an interview with him over at Geertjan’s Weblog, primarily regarding his IDE project. Though, we do learn that he lives in the south of France, which always sounds great to those of us who aren’t living there.

Björn is building the IDE on the NetBeans platform. I’ve never been a fan of NetBeans myself. I’ve primarily used Eclipse for my Java projects for a few years now, though I have gotten some mileage out of the NetBeans profiler. I’ll be keeping my eye on this project, though, since I’ve not settled on any of the IDE projects for D yet. I’m still happily using Crimson Editor, but I’m waiting for the day when one of the upcoming IDEs blows me away.

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2 Responses to “An Interview with BLS”

  1. By BLS on Sep 7, 2007

    Quote ;
    but I’m waiting for the day when one of the upcoming IDEs blows me away.
    End Quote.
    Well Michael, I’ll do my best.

    And yes, it was allmost about Netbeans. But I mean, in this context, I have made a good D PR job.
    Bjoern

  2. By Aldacron on Sep 8, 2007

    Well Michael, I’ll do my best.

    Looking forward to see where you go with it. I’m comfortable with Crimson Editor and use it for a variety of work other than D stuff, but I do sometimes miss some of the more advanced features of IDEs like NB and Eclipse (such as single-click refactoring, the feature I most use in Eclipse).

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