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4 days ago The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 | I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? It’s insane how bad editor support is. Coming from Go, where the core team actually develops and maintains their own LSP and tools, it’s no wonder D never gained more traction. And yes, I have tried ServeD, it's not reliable.. | |||
4 days ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 Posted in reply to xoxo | On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? It’s insane how bad editor support is. Coming from Go, where the core team actually develops and maintains their own LSP and tools, it’s no wonder D never gained more traction. And yes, I have tried ServeD, it's not reliable.. D has many features that hard to implement in LSP You can check this implementation for example: https://github.com/rikkimax/dls | |||
4 days ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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Posted in reply to Serg Gini | On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:58:22 UTC, Serg Gini wrote: >On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? It’s insane how bad editor support is. Coming from Go, where the core team actually develops and maintains their own LSP and tools, it’s no wonder D never gained more traction. And yes, I have tried ServeD, it's not reliable.. D has many features that hard to implement in LSP You can check this implementation for example: https://github.com/rikkimax/dls Sorry I phrased my question poorly, I know how to implement a LSP server, I meant how to use DMD's parser as a library From a HN thread: >WalterBright 54 days ago | root | parent | next [–] | |||
4 days ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 Posted in reply to xoxo | On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? It’s insane how bad editor support is. Coming from Go, where the core team actually develops and maintains their own LSP and tools, it’s no wonder D never gained more traction. And yes, I have tried ServeD, it's not reliable.. It's indeed a way to discover a library. | |||
3 days ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 Posted in reply to xoxo | On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? I agree that the documentation for it is bad. I tested Github Copilot on it and it seemed to understand the code. Maybe that is a way to get started. | |||
3 days ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 Posted in reply to xoxo | On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >I want to use DMD as a library to start building a reliable LSP. Problem is, there’s basically zero documentation on how to even get started with that. Does anyone have pointers, examples, or any kind of reference that could help? A presentation from dconf 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKT3MYpRgYA Slides are linked from there. And Razvan works for DLF, he can probably help explain things if you ask here or other places. >It’s insane how bad editor support is. Coming from Go, where the core team actually develops and maintains their own LSP and tools, it’s no wonder D never gained more traction. And yes, I have tried ServeD, it's not reliable.. I have seen this statement quite a bit. We need to work on it. I think that a lot of D users (including myself) rely on very old-fashioned workflows for these kinds of things, so we don't feel that pain. Not saying this is an excuse, it just might explain why focus isn't high on this problem. There is also work on a tree-sitter based LSP, which I believe is used in zed, see here: https://github.com/gdamore/tree-sitter-d -Steve | |||
6 hours ago Re: The state of editor support for D is depressing, let's change that | ||||
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 Posted in reply to Steven Schveighoffer | On Friday, 29 August 2025 at 02:10:59 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 14:34:00 UTC, xoxo wrote: >[...] A presentation from dconf 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKT3MYpRgYA Slides are linked from there. And Razvan works for DLF, he can probably help explain things if you ask here or other places. >[...] I have seen this statement quite a bit. We need to work on it. I think that a lot of D users (including myself) rely on very old-fashioned workflows for these kinds of things, so we don't feel that pain. Not saying this is an excuse, it just might explain why focus isn't high on this problem. There is also work on a tree-sitter based LSP, which I believe is used in zed, see here: https://github.com/gdamore/tree-sitter-d -Steve There's also DCD: https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD It works well for me. | |||
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