Hello,

This question might have already been asked, but maybe new answers come up, with new updates.

I a beginner with D, actually I have almost done nothing. I am using a Mac, and Xamarin Studio seem to be the best choice, but I am not even able to make it auto-complete the standard library. Does anybody know how to do it?

My main question is: Will D have a serious dedicated well supported IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse?

Having a dedicated powerful IDE nowadays, in my opinion, is essential, because people don't like to type too much, and that could bring more people to program in D!

Are there some open-source projects related to the creation of a D dedicated powerful IDE? Which are the other real serious alternatives?

Thanks!

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 20:23:10 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question might have already been asked, but maybe new answers come up, with new updates.
>
> I a beginner with D, actually I have almost done nothing. I am using a Mac, and Xamarin Studio seem to be the best choice, but I am not even able to make it auto-complete the standard library. Does anybody know how to do it?
>
> My main question is: Will D have a serious dedicated well supported IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse?
>
> Having a dedicated powerful IDE nowadays, in my opinion, is essential, because people don't like to type too much, and that could bring more people to program in D!
>
> Are there some open-source projects related to the creation of a D dedicated powerful IDE? Which are the other real serious alternatives?
>
> Thanks!

http://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs

Thanks! Actually I had already seen that page, but I was asking for other open-source projects. If there's someone working on a D dedicated IDE or not.

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 20:55:52 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
> Thanks! Actually I had already seen that page, but I was asking for other open-source projects. If there's someone working on a D dedicated IDE or not.

You could search on dub: http://code.dlang.org/

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 20:55:52 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
> Thanks! Actually I had already seen that page, but I was asking for other open-source projects. If there's someone working on a D dedicated IDE or not.

I've been using DlangIDE on Linux, which is young but solid so far, and VisualD on Windows which is quite mature.

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 20:23:10 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
> I a beginner with D, actually I have almost done nothing. I am using a Mac, and Xamarin Studio seem to be the best choice, but I am not even able to make it auto-complete the standard library. Does anybody know how to do it?

I am in the same boat and totally agree.  It's tough going from the user-experience of IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio back to vi on OS X with D.  There seems to be a large hole in support for D debugging outside of Visual D (line numbers, variable values, etc).  I was hoping to use D for a new project, but I don't feel the tools are ready yet.

On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 04:12:50 UTC, AJ wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 20:23:10 UTC, Rinzler wrote:
>> I a beginner with D, actually I have almost done nothing. I am using a Mac, and Xamarin Studio seem to be the best choice, but I am not even able to make it auto-complete the standard library. Does anybody know how to do it?
>
> I am in the same boat and totally agree.  It's tough going from the user-experience of IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio back to vi on OS X with D.  There seems to be a large hole in support for D debugging outside of Visual D (line numbers, variable values, etc).  I was hoping to use D for a new project, but I don't feel the tools are ready yet.

GDB works fine with D, I use it regularly.
http://wiki.dlang.org/Open_Source_Projects#Debugging_support_by_compiler:

On 02/26/2015 08:30 PM, weaselcat wrote:

> GDB works fine with D, I use it regularly.
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Open_Source_Projects#Debugging_support_by_compiler:

What version of gdb is needed and is that version easy to install?

Ali

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 04:12 +0000, AJ via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […]
> I am in the same boat and totally agree.  It's tough going from the user-experience of IntelliJ IDEA or Visual Studio back to vi on OS X with D.  There seems to be a large hole in support for D debugging outside of Visual D (line numbers, variable values, etc).  I was hoping to use D for a new project, but I don't feel the tools are ready yet.

Kingsley Hendrickse is developing a D plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Should
also work with CLion.

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On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 07:08:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

> What version of gdb is needed and is that version easy to install?

Something from late 2014 or newer is the best (7.8.50-cvs or 7.9.50-cvs) as it has got Ian's patches merged, but even an old stock Debian gdb (7.4.1) works reasonably well. GDB is acually easy to install if you compile it yourself. Just copy the binary to /usr/local/bin.