Visual D 0.3.35 released - semantic analysis considered stable

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 3 December 2012 at 18:58:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded a new version of Visual D. Apart from changes 
> to the build system, the semantic analysis is now considered 
> stable enough to leave experimental state. I guess too many 
> people just didn't know that it existed at all, because it was 
> buried somewhere in the global options. Although it hasn't 
> improved a lot (no UFCS, no class templates, no operator 
> overloading) it seems quite useful.
>
> Some excerpts from the change log:
>
>   * a number of bug fixes and improvements to the build system, 
> e.g.
>     - new linker option to disable using global and standard
>       library search paths
>     - added preliminary support for upcoming dmd win64 compiler
>     - added console application project template with
>       configurations for DMD and GDC for Win32 and x86
>   * semantic analysis now enabled by default
>   * "goto definition" now uses semantic analysis to find 
> declaration
>   * added build project to build Visual D from within Visual 
> Studio
>     itself without the need to modify makefiles
>   * now installed as an "extension" to VS 2010 and VS 2012
>   * fixed spurious crashes due to bug in precise garbage 
> collection
>
> The full list of changes can be found here: 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/VersionHistory
>
> Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project 
> management and language services for the D programming 
> language. It works with Visual Studio 2005-12 as well as the 
> free Visual Studio Shells.
>
> The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at 
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald
>
> Visual D is completely written in D, the source code is 
> available at github (https://github.com/rainers/visuald) and 
> dsource (http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/browser/trunk).
>
> Rainer

Great work, trying to install it still today!