On Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 15:20:15 UTC, Benny wrote:
Maybe things work great in a few very specific editor but in my personal experience, D its editor support is non stop frustrating. And i suspect that this complaint is not new.
Indeed, this complaint is not new. Because the complaint is actually so common, I'd like to share my own experience:
I tried several different solutions, including the IntelliJ plugin, Mono-D, Sublimetext with a D-plugin, dlangide and vs code with code-d. With most of them, I had some problems, but in the end, I got all of them working. I had the least problems with code-d (the serve-d variant), which works perfectly after setting the stdlibPath in the settings (provided you already have dscanner and dfmt installed on your system and in your PATH). This what also what I've settled for in the end.
In my opinion the features offered by it are actually quite good: The autocompletion provided by dcd is more than enough for my needs and in addition to that you get static linting, code formating, debugging (if you also install the native debug plugin from the same author) goto definition and some more features. And in my experience this all works without major issues. Sure, you don't get autocompletion for ufcs calls, but that is actually quite difficult to implement...
Take this all with a grain of salt: I have only tested this on Linux and OS X, I have no clue about the situation on Windows.
But at least my experience was really good, so I'd like to use this opportunity to thank all the authors of the plugins and the underlying tools for doing this (ungrateful) work (and in my opinion doing it very well). I know that probably a lot has still to be done, but the state of affairs is not as bad as all the complaints make it sounds.
The reasons for the problems you describe still being so common have already explained thoroughly by others: Its mainly that there are no paid developers working on it and therefore not enough people working on it. So the solution is actullay quite simple and it is the same answer that most complaints about problems with D get: Either do it yourself, or pay somebody to do it. That is the quickest way to fix things.
