hi everyone,

after a long time there is finally a new update for my Visual Studio Code extension "code-d"

serve-d is my Language Server Protocol implementation in D using workspace-d as a backend. It implements a lot of features and is highly optimized for use with code-d.

code-d is my D extension for the code editor Visual Studio Code by Microsoft. It is currently the most popular/most installed extension for D on the vscode marketplace and offers a lot of functionality, especially for beginners. Especially after this update it is pretty stable and can be used productively.

This updates brings a lot more stability improvements, lots of bug fixes and a few cool new bigger features.

With this post I want to highlight:

- Precompiled binaries on all platforms -
OS X users will no longer have to wait for serve-d to compile from source, nightly (previously beta stream) builds are now always tested first and also available precompiled for all platforms. This also means you no longer need a powerful machine to use serve-d on these 3 OSes. There is also a new pre-release setting which will get you new features more quickly but still relatively stable. I would be happy to have as many people as possible who report bugs to switch to this channel.

This makes it extremely easy to start out with D by simply installing code-d in vscode and letting it setup everything plus guiding you to installing a D compiler. Only on windows you might still need to restart your PC to apply PATH changes. Windows installation is in general more stabilized on PCs now which have never had D installed before.

- New/Improved Code actions -
The "Implement Interface" command is now very well usable in common projects. I am not the most heavy user of this, but occasionally this is extremely helpful and I think people who code D a bit more Java-like will certainly like this feature.

- Big dub build performance improvements -
linting is usually at least 2x faster and is fixed in general now.

- Issue parsing -
build tasks now have a built-in issue parser, there are build tasks contributed by default which are editable now and the built-in dub lint on save can also show "instantiated from..." issues a lot smarter now

- Long standing bugs -
* a lot of startup issues fixed
* dml autocompletion fixed
* closing files didn't make warnings properly disappear / was badly configurable
* several sort import bugs fixed
* code-d compilation bugs fixed
* some exit error message boxes on windows fixed
* GC now run regularly
* a lot of syntax highlighting improvements

- Other changes -
There are some snippets for Diet now included. These will be replaced with a proper emmet generator soon though so they aren't advertised too much, but it should already improve life.

Read the full changelog on https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Install in Visual Studio Code by searching webfreak.code-d or see https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.code-d

serve-d binaries: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d

Awesome, thanks for all the hard work on this!

On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 23:17:21 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> after a long time there is finally a new update for my Visual Studio Code extension "code-d"
>
> [...]

Wow! Well done on the effort!!

Hello!
When code-d attempts self upgrade it prints the followinf output to console of VS Code:
"""
Installing DCD: DCD is outdated. Expected: 0.11.1, got none
Downloading from https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD/releases/download/v0.11.1/dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin
Zip file already exists! Trying to install existing zip.
Extracting download...
> tar xvfz dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Successfully downloaded DCD, but could not find the executables.
Please open your user settings and insert the paths for dcd-client and dcd-server manually.
Download base location: /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin

Tried "dcd-client", "dcd-server", "bin/dcd-client", "bin/dcd-server"
Successfully installed DCD
"""

Looks like something went wrong with extracting archive: dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz. This archive is not opening with standart Kubuntu GUI archiver like "Ark", but still I was able to "unzip" in through "unar" programme. Maybe you just archived it with some exotical settings of compression so it doesn't open everywhere.

On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 05:12:11 UTC, uranuz wrote:
> Hello!
> When code-d attempts self upgrade it prints the followinf output to console of VS Code:
> """
> Installing DCD: DCD is outdated. Expected: 0.11.1, got none
> Downloading from https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD/releases/download/v0.11.1/dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin
> Zip file already exists! Trying to install existing zip.
> Extracting download...
>> [...]
>
> [...]

uhh I didn't archive that (it comes from DCD) and it worked with basically all other linux so far.

Maybe it got corrupted during the download, deleting it and letting it redownload should fix it in this case.