Hi guys!
I'm proud to announce the next code-d release with a lot of
improvements in stability and usability.
code-d[1] is the Visual Studio Code extension for my Language
Server serve-d[2] - I have been working on this for a while and
wanted to get as much as possible in before the end of the year.
You might have heard of dls[3] which is basically the same as
serve-d, just from another person which is also really cool. My
focus is more on improving vscode specifically and having a
stable runtime there, but you can make it work with other LSP
compatible editors aswell yourself.
As I said, there have been a lot of new big features, you can
view a full changelog under
https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
To summarize:
== The biggest features ==
- Embedded dpldocs.info - press ctrl-q ctrl-q (changable) to open
an embedded documentation browser inside vscode, this is a lot
more productive than always switching between browser and vscode.
You can also have them in multiple tabs in vscode
- vibe.d Diet template autocompletion - Are you doing web dev
with diet? Diet templates now complete HTML tags as well as D
code! This is still the first version of the auto complete so
expect bugs and some stuff not working, but for many places this
already works great and makes diet and vibe.d a lot more
accessible.
- New syntax highlighting - the old syntax was buggy and often
faulty, it has been updated to be more consistent and all of
phobos looks good with it by testing random samples and scrolling
through the whole files.
== other great stuff ==
- code-d and serve-d are a lot more stable for a lot more
different projects, expect less crashes (but there might still be
issues with missing dependencies for auto completion, just no
longer causing the entire plugin to halt)
- Implement interface got a lot better - no longer will it insert
duplicate methods if you implement an interface twice and it's
all a lot more accurate with more tests to make the inserted code
actually correct and compilable
- The argument snippets which were enablable per
d.argumentSnippets for a while have become a lot more useful. If
you use the vscode Java extension by Red Hat you can enable this
to get the same auto completion of method arguments as you get in
there, which is basically inserting snippets of
"function(arg1name, arg2name, arg3name)"
- You can convert between dub.json and dub.sdl via a button click
in the editor now
- Implemented outline view and breadcrumbs in vscode
Many bugs have also been fixed, especially with configuration
enabling/disabling features, so check out the changelog for the
rest. This serve-d version ships with dfmt 0.9.0 and dscanner
0.6.0 and it will download DCD 0.10.2
Get the extension now:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.code-d
or search for "D programming language" inside vscode and click
the code-d one.
It requires at least Visual Studio Code 1.29
Wish you all a happy new year and a good start into 2019!
I want to eventually write a blog post about some features you
might not know about in code-d and how to be more productive
using all of its features, because it really has a ton a lot of
people don't know about.
Tweet to this:
https://twitter.com/WebFreak001/status/1079790275940286464
[1]: https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d
[2]: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d
[3]:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
