Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects? (page 2)

On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:

Hi everyone,

Recently, I wanted to improve my experience with dlang in sublime text and tried several solutions.

I am the author of https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-contrib-dmd, which is the D syntax checking plugin for Sublime Text. I have contributed a couple of PRs for their D syntax highlighter as well. Sublime Text is a bit special regarding syntax highlighting, as they use their own regular expression engine, and so cannot use generalised language server solutions. At least that was the answer I got from the devs a few years ago, when I asked whether a dmd-as-a-library solution would be viable. So consolidating efforts is harder in Sublime’s case, as it wants to be different. As far as I know, only Visual Studio (proper) has a dmd-based language server: VisualD.

— Bastiaan.

On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 17:43:35 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote: > Unless you're writing HTML, CSS and JS... Long time ago I was working on C# back-end and It was needed to test it with the front-end, which was written in *.asp containing HTML, CSS, JS etc. And it was a mess inside Visual Studio 2012, I don't remember the name (Maybe was Design Mode) but it was pure garbage. It was easier to use a text-editor and see the result on directly on a browser than using that IDE. Again this was on VS2012 and I don't know how things are currently, I mean the one thing that I usually hear are people complaining that VS is a hog. For me I go first with text-editor, otherwise the only IDE I still use sometimes for old projects is the old VS 6.0, which fast and opens like it was the notepad. Matheus.

April 23, 2022

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On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 15:53:48 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:

Hi everyone,

Recently, I wanted to improve my experience with dlang in sublime text and tried several solutions.

— Bastiaan.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I've already wondered about strange highlighting in ST in a few cases - e.g if( const(JSONValue)* v = "status_command" in json ).

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 05:43:35PM +0000, Salih Dincer via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 15:05:02 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > [...] and I will not touch a heavyweight IDE with a 10-foot pole. [...] > > Unless you're writing HTML, CSS and JS (e.g. VueJS) code, it's better > to stay away. Humankind have eyes bigger than their stomach :) I write HTML/CSS with Vim just fine. ;-) Well OK, when the boilerplate becomes too cumbersome, then I write D code to auto-generate parts of it. :-P A combo I've been turning to quite often lately is to kick up a skeletal HTML template, with placeholders (like `@@HEADER@@`, `@@DATA@@`, etc.) that then gets replaced with contents generated by D code. Haven't really done too much JS lately though. Nothing beyond relatively trivial stuff that can be easily handled by jquery. Even with jquery I've been finding myself itching to write D instead (JS is just not an ideal language for programming, in general... and every time I use a language other than D I find myself longing for D features). But yeah, an IDE that takes 50 seconds to load, soaks up 5GB of RAM upon startup, and then gives me an aneurysm from over-dependence on the rodent... just not my thing, no thanks. Linux is my IDE. :-D T -- It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. I LOVE IDEs and I love all the coding assistance I can get. My favorite is code completion after typing a dot. <meme>I aint got time for that</meme> ... to remember all library details. I need IDE to help with code completion, function signatures etc.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:04:27AM +0000, user via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. I LOVE IDEs and I love all the coding assistance I can get. My favorite is code completion after typing a dot. > > <meme>I aint got time for that</meme> ... to remember all library details. I need IDE to help with code completion, function signatures etc. +1, this is one reason why I like D: it doesn't force you to use an IDE, but it doesn't force you to use a plain text editor either. You get to choose what best fits your workflow. Not like some languages that are nigh-unusable if you don't use the IDE (or vice versa). T -- What doesn't kill me makes me stranger.

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