Descent 0.5.3 released

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 20 21:50:31 PST 2008


== Quote from Ary Borenszweig (ary at esperanto.org.ar)'s article
> The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
> and debugging code in D.
> Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
> (There's no need to do the nightly-build manual stuff for this. If you
> previously had a nightly-build, you must need to remove it before
> updating. Anyway, the current nightly-build reflects this release, so
> you can just do it manually if it turns out easier for you.)
> This release is just an accumulation of small features and bug fixes
> since the last (official, not nightly-build) version. But since I don't
> want everyone to think "Aww, nothing new, just a new number", this
> release also includes support for array "extension methods" in
> autocompletion. For this to work, the function that you want to use as
> an extension must be in the current module, or already imported (so for
> example you won't get methods from std.algorithm, tango.core.Array or
> tango.text.Util until you have an import for them in the module you are
> currently typing in).
> Here's a video that shows this functionality:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBj0wu9dbnA
> And a question: what would you like to see next in Descent?
> Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use:
> - the forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107
> - trac: http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new
> - irc: at freenode, #d.descent
> Enjoy!

Awesome!  How far along is semantic support for D2?  I'd really like a real IDE
for D2, but I guess not having one is the price I pay for living on the bleeding edge.


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