I started working on this project to make it more comfortable to write D back in 2017, published a VSCode extension a couple months later, and continued working on it throughout 2018. In 2019 however, I slowed down, and eventually, stopped working on it.

It was fun, and kept me well occupied for quite some time; but I have been working on something else since April of last year, and since I don't have any use for D in it, I am not taking time to do anything with DLS.

So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.

Webfreak is still working on code-d/serve-d from what I gather, so hopefully, the handful of people who could be using DLS on VSCode can use it instead.

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 19:12:49 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> I started working on this project to make it more comfortable to write D back in 2017, published a VSCode extension a couple months later, and continued working on it throughout 2018. In 2019 however, I slowed down, and eventually, stopped working on it.
>
> It was fun, and kept me well occupied for quite some time; but I have been working on something else since April of last year, and since I don't have any use for D in it, I am not taking time to do anything with DLS.
>
> So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.
>
> Webfreak is still working on code-d/serve-d from what I gather, so hopefully, the handful of people who could be using DLS on VSCode can use it instead.

*sigh*

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Laurent!

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 19:12:49 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> I started working on this project to make it more comfortable to write D back in 2017, published a VSCode extension a couple months later, and continued working on it throughout 2018. In 2019 however, I slowed down, and eventually, stopped working on it.
>
> It was fun, and kept me well occupied for quite some time; but I have been working on something else since April of last year, and since I don't have any use for D in it, I am not taking time to do anything with DLS.
>
> So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.
>
> Webfreak is still working on code-d/serve-d from what I gather, so hopefully, the handful of people who could be using DLS on VSCode can use it instead.

Nooooooooo

DLS was so fast and smooth :(

But ah well. Thanks for all the work and for the heads up!

Is what you’re working on shareable information (just out of curiosity)?

Cheers and good luck with the other stuff!

07.04.2020 22:12, Laurent Tréguier пишет:
> I started working on this project to make it more comfortable to write D back in 2017, published a VSCode extension a couple months later, and continued working on it throughout 2018. In 2019 however, I slowed down, and eventually, stopped working on it.
> 
> It was fun, and kept me well occupied for quite some time; but I have been working on something else since April of last year, and since I don't have any use for D in it, I am not taking time to do anything with DLS.
> 
> So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.
> 
> Webfreak is still working on code-d/serve-d from what I gather, so hopefully, the handful of people who could be using DLS on VSCode can use it instead.

I'm a user of DLS for a long time. Thanks for your work!

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 19:12:49 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> It was fun, and kept me well occupied for quite some time; but I have been working on something else since April of last year, and since I don't have any use for D in it, I am not taking time to do anything with DLS.
>
> So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.

(T_T)

Thanks for the effort you put on DLS, it's really a good piece of software.

Really it should've been an official sponsored project and with a DMD backend
it would be perfect.

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 19:12:49 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> So today, I am deprecating DLS, along with its editor extensions. If anyone was using them, be advised that they will not have any update or support from now on.
>
> Webfreak is still working on code-d/serve-d from what I gather, so hopefully, the handful of people who could be using DLS on VSCode can use it instead.

Aww, too bad. Thanks for your effort.

I was wondering how much time maintaining took? And what where the biggest things to upkeep?

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 20:03:21 UTC, Aliak wrote:
> Is what you’re working on shareable information (just out of curiosity)?

It's shareable (it's on Github just like DLS); it's a mobile app, the Android version is in Kotlin, and the iOS version in Swift. I think it's hard to beat native languages for these platforms, as they both have tailored APIs and development environments (and they are backed by giant companies putting lots of resources into them)

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 21:58:47 UTC, Boris Carvajal wrote:
> Really it should've been an official sponsored project and with a DMD backend it would be perfect.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting things I've read on certain threads, but I thought the D foundation wasn't too fond of sponsoring projects.
Using DMD as a backend would mean that DMD would have to be worked on first, and most of DLS would pretty much have to be rewritten from scratch. The code is still up (and will stay) on Github if anyone dares to attempt that...

On 08/04/2020 10:26 AM, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 21:58:47 UTC, Boris Carvajal wrote:
>> Really it should've been an official sponsored project and with a DMD backend it would be perfect.
> 
> Maybe I'm misinterpreting things I've read on certain threads, but I thought the D foundation wasn't too fond of sponsoring projects.
> Using DMD as a backend would mean that DMD would have to be worked on first, and most of DLS would pretty much have to be rewritten from scratch. The code is still up (and will stay) on Github if anyone dares to attempt that...

DMD is getting worked on (Rainer's work is who I am watching for "maturity").

It is on our TODO list to switch over tools like DCD over to dmd-fe at some point. I am waiting for a lot more maturity before digging in to see what is missing though.

On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 22:07:34 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> I was wondering how much time maintaining took? And what where the biggest things to upkeep?

Technically, not much time. It's mostly upgrading dependencies, and the occasional bugfix. However DLS would really need a lot more time to get better. I think its current state is a dead end, and if anything should be done with it, it's a rewrite, and not just maintenance.

A recent DMD release changed the default behavior of running unit tests, and broke the CI (integration tests aren't running anymore); and the deprecation of `alias get this` in Nullable created a number of deprecation messages on compilation that sends shivers down my spine (DLS abuses Nullable as an optional type).