Hello, D community!

I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-Scanner.
It only supports formatting with DFMT and basic autocompletion with DCD (for now). I've successfully got it working with both VSCode [1] and Atom [2], maybe I'll try to make extensions for some other editors as well.

Also now that I've actually tried the language, I have to say I really like it :)

[1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.vscode-dls
[2]: https://atom.io/packages/ide-dlang

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:08:14 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> Hello, D community!
>
> I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-Scanner.
> It only supports formatting with DFMT and basic autocompletion with DCD (for now). I've successfully got it working with both VSCode [1] and Atom [2], maybe I'll try to make extensions for some other editors as well.
>
> Also now that I've actually tried the language, I have to say I really like it :)
>
> [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.vscode-dls
> [2]: https://atom.io/packages/ide-dlang

Ahem... https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:32:40 UTC, Anton Pastukhov wrote:
> Ahem... https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d

I know, but I still wanted to have a bit of fun anyway

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:08:14 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> Hello, D community!
>
> I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-Scanner.
> It only supports formatting with DFMT and basic autocompletion with DCD (for now). I've successfully got it working with both VSCode [1] and Atom [2], maybe I'll try to make extensions for some other editors as well.
>
> Also now that I've actually tried the language, I have to say I really like it :)
>
> [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.vscode-dls
> [2]: https://atom.io/packages/ide-dlang

neat, I am also planning on including dcd inside my language server, did everything just work or did you have issues with threading and messaging etc and what were your experiences on it?

I see that you have an auto updater, I might as well steal that functionality for me :p

Can you list what else makes your language server special? Have you maybe also considered contributing on workspace-d/serve-d? ;)

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 21:08:20 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> neat, I am also planning on including dcd inside my language server, did everything just work or did you have issues with threading and messaging etc and what were your experiences on it?

I'm not doing anything threaded except for special cases like updating. But otherwise DCD seems to just work, I haven't had any problems with it.

> I see that you have an auto updater, I might as well steal that functionality for me :p

Well, I stole your fix of using `stdout.rawWrite` instead of `stdout.write` to make it work on Windows :p

> Can you list what else makes your language server special? Have you maybe also considered contributing on workspace-d/serve-d? ;)

Nothing makes it really special for now, the major differences compared to serve-d is that I'm using DCD as a library, and the update system.
Regarding contributing to workspace-d or serve-d, I have something else in mind now : you work on code-d while I have worked on dlang-vscode, so I named my Atom package ide-dlang because for naming consistency the package named ide-d should be the one using serve-d and workspace-d. As I'm now familiar with Atom packages again, and if you implement auto-updating, making ide-d might become quite easy :)

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:08:14 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
> Hello, D community!
>
> I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-Scanner.
> It only supports formatting with DFMT and basic autocompletion with DCD (for now). I've successfully got it working with both VSCode [1] and Atom [2], maybe I'll try to make extensions for some other editors as well.
>
> Also now that I've actually tried the language, I have to say I really like it :)
>
> [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.vscode-dls
> [2]: https://atom.io/packages/ide-dlang

I really can't thank you enough for `ide`dlang`. Thank you very much for your atom package. I hope you include Dscanner in near future.

On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 at 12:18:31 UTC, Aedt wrote:
> I really can't thank you enough for `ide`dlang`. Thank you very much for your atom package. I hope you include Dscanner in near future.

D-Scanner linting should be on the way once a new stable version is released (I'm going to test its release candidate in the next days)

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:32:40 UTC, Anton Pastukhov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 18:08:14 UTC, Laurent Tréguier wrote:
>> Hello, D community!
>>
>> I've been looking at D for a while now, but never got to really use it. And now that Microsoft initiated the Language Server Protocol, I thought about trying to make a language server using DCD, DFMT and D-Scanner.
>> It only supports formatting with DFMT and basic autocompletion with DCD (for now). I've successfully got it working with both VSCode [1] and Atom [2], maybe I'll try to make extensions for some other editors as well.
>>
>> Also now that I've actually tried the language, I have to say I really like it :)
>>
>> [1]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentTreguier.vscode-dls
>> [2]: https://atom.io/packages/ide-dlang
>
> Ahem... https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d


Do you test this, in Windows. Because I could get dcd,workspace-d etc to work on Windows.