Re: Visual D 1.0.0 released

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/07/2020 09:14, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On Friday, 10 July 2020 at 06:46:53 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> 
>> There is an extension using DLS as an LSP:
>> https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.visual-studio-dlang
>>
>>
>> It's been some time, but when I tried to use that along side Visual D,
>> it caused problems because both are trying to be a language service
>> for the same language.
> 
> I was more hoping for the engine in VisualD to be the new DCD or DLS,
> since it's already using the DMD frontend for some things. Then it can
> be used by other editors and IDEs, hint hint, wink wink ;)

The semantic engine shouldn't be too hard to extract, as it is already
running as a separate process. It just uses a protocol that predates LSP.