March 01, 2017
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 00:47:23 UTC, SC wrote:
> All these ones have poor auto-completion, no import suggestion, poor debugging feature, when comparing to something like Visual Stuido, QT Creator or Clion, it is far far behind, good editor = productivity boost, that's what companies want

D need SDC compiler to mature to improve tooling.
March 09, 2017
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 15:55:09 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> There was also someone who was working on an Intellij plugin for D but it doesn't seem like they are working on it that much anymore. https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage

There's a new build (v1.11) for the Intellij D Language plugin:

https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage/releases

which should be in the plugin repo soon:

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language?pr=idea
March 11, 2017
On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 21:42:05 UTC, singingbush wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 15:55:09 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>> There was also someone who was working on an Intellij plugin for D but it doesn't seem like they are working on it that much anymore. https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage
>
> There's a new build (v1.11) for the Intellij D Language plugin:
>
> https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage/releases
>
> which should be in the plugin repo soon:
>
> https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language?pr=idea

Does it still rely on DCD?
If yes, then it still sucks. Shitty to set up, buggy in usage, bad and horribly slow autocompletion.

Thanks @Hackerpilot, you created good software that is good at what it has been made for.

But unfortunately all those lazy "pro-user" abused it for simply bodging it into their favorite IDE wich caused combined with their lack of skills a total disaster of D support.

Moreover, as most of those plugins are also written in D, no new user, who is searching for a good IDE, will ever be interested in contributing to those projects as they would have to write D code for creating good IDE support, but without a useful IDE. If combating the horror leads to even more horror, noone will ever do it - for comprehensible reasons.

Regards,
Grander
March 13, 2017
On Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 01:02:44 UTC, Grander wrote:
> Does it still rely on DCD?
> If yes, then it still sucks. Shitty to set up, buggy in usage, bad and horribly slow autocompletion.
>
> Thanks @Hackerpilot, you created good software that is good at what it has been made for.

I don't think that problem is in DCD, because in Xamarin Studio it works instantly, without any lags.
March 13, 2017
On Monday, 13 March 2017 at 07:02:57 UTC, Dmitry wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 March 2017 at 01:02:44 UTC, Grander wrote:
>> Does it still rely on DCD?
>> If yes, then it still sucks. Shitty to set up, buggy in usage, bad and horribly slow autocompletion.
>>
>> Thanks @Hackerpilot, you created good software that is good at what it has been made for.
>
> I don't think that problem is in DCD, because in Xamarin Studio it works instantly, without any lags.

That's because it does NOT use DCD.
March 14, 2017
On Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at 15:48:43 UTC, SC wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm a long time lurker, i always wanted to learn a system language ( i'm currently using Java/Kotlin/C# )
>
> But the problem i got with D is the lack of IDE, when you program in Java or C# everyday, you understand why good IDE support is essential to be productive, and to learn new things thanks to IDE features such as inspections
>
> Even Rust have great IDE support with IntelliJ, same for Haskell, same for Go
>
> I see people creating their own ide, or rely on code editors like vs code / atom / sublime
>
> I find this really counter productive, not because they are bad or uncomplete, because people don't want to use other tools, for some people they use one IDE for all their projects (IntelliJ suite cover all rube/pyton/html/js/c#/java/go/c/c++)
>
> Guys, it's time to focus on IDE support, it's even in the road map of rust https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/02/06/roadmap.html
>
> Good IDE support that everyone use (IntelliJ or VS, IntelliJ would be best candidate since it's crossplatform, that's why Rust and Go choosed it) will be a huge boost for the language adoption IMO
>
> I'm currently learning Rust, and having a great intellij plugin helped me a lot to learn it, and i feel comfortable with it, but i'm dropping it because i don't like the language syntax
>
> So guys i hope you'll think about this and put all effort in one IDE to make sure newbies can get their hand on D easily
>
> It's hard for me to explain since my english is really bad
>
> Thanks

I am agree with your opinion too. I just would like to start with D from .NET and Java world. Two days I am searching some working IDE.
So powerful language and nothing about IDE.
My exp are (Windows 10, 64 bit):
1. DLangIDE - amazing, natural, simple and fast. DCD works till first start debugging
(Linux Mint too)
2. VisualD - can not even build HelloWorld Enterprise :) app (path problem)
3. TextAdept - DScanner works, DCD failed to work
4. ....
Just would like to ask where people write code?

March 14, 2017
On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 01:32:30 UTC, Sergey Orlov wrote:

> Just would like to ask where people write code?

With Java, I can't get by without an IDE anymore, but with D I just don't need one. I feel they actually get in my way. Sublime Text and Visual Studio Code do just fine.
March 14, 2017
On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 01:32:30 UTC, Sergey Orlov wrote:
> My exp are (Windows 10, 64 bit):
> 1. DLangIDE - amazing, natural, simple and fast. DCD works till first start debugging
> (Linux Mint too)
> 2. VisualD - can not even build HelloWorld Enterprise :) app (path problem)
> 3. TextAdept - DScanner works, DCD failed to work
> 4. ....
> Just would like to ask where people write code?

I'm using the Visual D plugin on Windows. After having used Visual Studio and Qt Creator for C# and C++ I am satisfied.
March 19, 2017
Yeah I personally think having an IDE that holds an environment similar to a Java IDE it would be pretty nice. Something like IntelliJ for D (the plugin is alright but it isn't as fast as writing Java in IntelliJ when I write D. Right now I use Eclipse with DDT since it has a nice auto completion feature and some other stuff. It's pretty good, but creating D files is kinda weird. You don't create a D class, you create a blank file that you have to manually set the extension type to and is in a folder rather than something like a package/module. I tried some other IDEs that were on the Wiki but they either a) didn't work or b) weren't that good. With the IntelliJ plugin (which seems pretty good in the screenshots) it crashed the IDE and produced a bunch of errors.

I think if D wanted to attract more attention or appeal to the Java crowd, they could quite easily do that and gain a lot more users if they were to create an IDE that was very similar in terms of assisting the user in typing automatically like almost any popular Java IDE. I really hope an IDE is released that is what I'm describing and if their isn't I'll have to look into making one.
April 05, 2017
On Thursday, 9 March 2017 at 21:42:05 UTC, singingbush wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 15:55:09 UTC, Jerry wrote:
>> There was also someone who was working on an Intellij plugin for D but it doesn't seem like they are working on it that much anymore. https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage
>
> There's a new build (v1.11) for the Intellij D Language plugin:
>
> https://github.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage/releases
>
> which should be in the plugin repo soon:
>
> https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8115-d-language?pr=idea

Seeing how JetBrains now created an IDE for Go ultimately shows how D failed. D is much older. Anyway, there is no official support built into any JetBrains product (and they support almost everything, or at least build tools to enhance other IDEs).
Quite sad.

And now give anybody a reason to learn D. When you instead could use C#, Java, Go - all of them being supported very well by great IDEs...