Visual D 0.51.0 - semantic engine based on dmd frontend

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18.01.2020 17:22, Rainer Schuetze пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the release of Visual D 0.51.0.
> 
> Visual D is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to
> VS2008-2019. The installers can be found at
> http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
> 
> 
> This version features a first version of an intellisense engine that is
> based on the DMD frontend (as of version 2.090) for semantic analysis.
> It is still considered experimental and has to be enabled on the
> respective language options page. When comparing this new engine to the
> regular engine which is based on DParser that used to power Mono-D:
> 
> - it does a full semantic analysis and shows the same errors as dmd
> would do. DParser only marks parser issues.
> 
> - browsing compilable code works quite well (e.g. inference of auto
> types is not an issue anymore).
> 
> - semantic highlighting is faster and more accurate.
> 
> - completion is yet not very good, especially while the currently edited
> code has parsing errors.
> 
> - as dmd itself it can require quite a bit of memory, though a variety
> of false and stale pointer issues have been fixed to help the precise GC.
> 
> Other highlights of this release:
> 
> - Ctrl+Click goto definition added for VS2017+
> 
> - visualdproj projects: basic DUB support: upgrade and refresh if
> project contains dub.json or dub.sdl
> 
> See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for
> the complete list of changes
> 
> Cheers,
> Rainer
> 
Don't use Windows for long time but I'm impressed by your great work. 
Keep it up!