After receiving 1000+ votes on Visual Studio User Voice
[1], Microsoft has added D to their Wiki for requested VSCode extensions[2]. I'm not sure if support was initially available for adding custom extensions to VSCode, but it seems to be now[3]. I've been using VSCode for a couple of months now(C#) and it seems pretty good. I'm not sure how soon Microsoft will actually get around to implementing a D extension, but it doesn't seem like it would be very difficult to create one for someone who already has experience with this sort of thing[4].


[1] http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7763160-support-the-d-programming-language
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Requested-Extensions
[3] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/extensions/overview
[4] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization/colorizer

    Bit

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 22:06:37 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> After receiving 1000+ votes on Visual Studio User Voice
> [1], Microsoft has added D to their Wiki for requested VSCode extensions[2]. I'm not sure if support was initially available for adding custom extensions to VSCode, but it seems to be now[3]. I've been using VSCode for a couple of months now(C#) and it seems pretty good. I'm not sure how soon Microsoft will actually get around to implementing a D extension, but it doesn't seem like it would be very difficult to create one for someone who already has experience with this sort of thing[4].
>
>
> [1] http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7763160-support-the-d-programming-language
> [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki/Requested-Extensions
> [3] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/extensions/overview
> [4] https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization/colorizer
>
>     Bit

Sounds awesome for the community! But for me this will probably be a real downside as we put so much work into our vscode extension already.

In case someone didn't know: me and Wild made a D extension for vscode supporting dub (build, run, linting) + dub.json completion, dfmt, dscanner, dcd, DlangUI Markup Language syntax + auto complete, SDL syntax, arsd.script syntax, jade syntax, upload to dpaste and D snippets: https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 22:23:49 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> Sounds awesome for the community! But for me this will probably be a real downside as we put so much work into our vscode extension already.
>
> In case someone didn't know: me and Wild made a D extension for vscode supporting dub (build, run, linting) + dub.json completion, dfmt, dscanner, dcd, DlangUI Markup Language syntax + auto complete, SDL syntax, arsd.script syntax, jade syntax, upload to dpaste and D snippets: https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but all MS has done is move it to a wiki requesting an extension from the community for it. I don't see anything that indicates that they will do any work on this. You've already done what has been requested IMHO, it would be great if there was a way to update the issue/wiki to point to your extension.

I've been using your extension for awhile now while and it's been great, I'm finding vscode coupled with code-d to be much more productive for me then other toolchains I've chained.

On second blush maybe I am reading this wrong, as it is a "community requested extension" not "extension to be done by the community". Anyway, beyond adding a simple syntax highlighter, this would be a huge amount of work for MS to support fully and I'm not sure what it buys in comparison to the existing extension from WebFreak.

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 22:23:49 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 22:06:37 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>>     [...]
>
> Sounds awesome for the community! But for me this will probably be a real downside as we put so much work into our vscode extension already.
>
> In case someone didn't know: me and Wild made a D extension for vscode supporting dub (build, run, linting) + dub.json completion, dfmt, dscanner, dcd, DlangUI Markup Language syntax + auto complete, SDL syntax, arsd.script syntax, jade syntax, upload to dpaste and D snippets: https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d

How did I not know about this!?

Total awesomeness.

You can add it here if you want:
http://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs

Also, can you create an install-wizard or zip/package with the extension and all dependencies? I don't really have time to figure out how to install everything separately.

Thanks!
   Bit

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 23:17:48 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> You can add it here if you want:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs

Its already on http://wiki.dlang.org/List_of_Text_editors

> Also, can you create an install-wizard or zip/package with the extension and all dependencies? I don't really have time to figure out how to install everything separately.

Good idea, would make everything easier

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 23:27:08 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 23:17:48 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> You can add it here if you want:
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs
>
> Its already on http://wiki.dlang.org/List_of_Text_editors
>
>> Also, can you create an install-wizard or zip/package with the extension and all dependencies? I don't really have time to figure out how to install everything separately.
>
> Good idea, would make everything easier

Awesome. Can't wait to try it out!

It would be nice to have an editor that could deal with DMD properly(half C++, half D). I don't expect to be able to jump between symbols in different languages, but at least use "Go To Definition" for one language at a time, in the same editor. That would be awesome.

    Bit

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 23:17:48 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> Also, can you create an install-wizard or zip/package with the extension and all dependencies? I don't really have time to figure out how to install everything separately.

Made a wizard which automatically clones, builds and copies all executables now:

https://github.com/Pure-D/workspace-d-installer

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 20:25:46 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 23:17:48 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> Also, can you create an install-wizard or zip/package with the extension and all dependencies? I don't really have time to figure out how to install everything separately.
>
> Made a wizard which automatically clones, builds and copies all executables now:
>
> https://github.com/Pure-D/workspace-d-installer

Awesome, thanks =D
I'll try it out this weekend.

Not sure if this is an issue though, but VSCode was just updated, and the release log says there are breaking changes for extensions:

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_extension-authoring

    Bit

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 18:26:35 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> Awesome, thanks =D
> I'll try it out this weekend.
>
> Not sure if this is an issue though, but VSCode was just updated, and the release log says there are breaking changes for extensions:
>
> https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_extension-authoring

That only happens if you upgrade the vscode dependency. Its very weird right now and I will wait for the next release before upgrading the extension because there isn't anything new that code-d needs.