On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 09:54:46 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
Hi,
a new version of Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that
adds D language support to VS2008-2019, is available at
https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
Major highlights of this release are
- improvements to the DMD based semantic engine: it has been
updated to the frontend version 2.091, and code-completion has
improved quite a bit, so much that I would recommend everyone
to actually try it (unless you have too little RAM installed to
cope with the frontends hunger for memory). Use "Visual D ->
Open Language options..." from the menu to enable the "DMD
parsing engine" as well as "Colorize identifiers from semantic
analysis" on the "Editor" options page.
- the debugger expression evaluation now has support for tuples
and simpler display of global variables (it's no longer
necessary to specify the fully qualified name)
- updated support for all language options (e.g. -preview),
these are also forwarded to the DMD based code analysis
The full version history can be found at
https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html
Cheers,
Rainer
The DMD Semantic Server seems to hang after 10-15 minutes of
operation. Memory usage slowly increases from ~400MB to ~2.9GB,
after which it seems to hang. It won't do completion, error
checking or semantic highlighting. When I shut Visual Studio
down, the semantic server lingers in the background which I have
to terminate via Task Manager.
Restarting Visual Studio and terminating the server seems to fix
the issue, until it happens again 15 minutes later.
The completion is a tad slow, but it's functional and very
accurate, so I'm quite happy with it.
I'm glad to see the progress you've made and I look forward to
future updates =)
