Visual D 1.1.0 released

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 04/03/2021 14:43, James Lu wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 at 08:58:15 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> development on Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that adds D
>> language support to VS 2008-2019, has been rather slow recently, but
>> finally the results of recent months have been released.
>>
>> Some highlights of this new version:
>>
>> - semantic engine updated to frontend 2.095.1
>>
>> - adds "adornments" (Visual Studio terminology) to the call
>> site of parameters that are passed by (mutable) ref, out or lazy. See
>> https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/images/parameterstorage.png
>> for some examples.
>>
>> - integrates dfmt for command "Format Document"
>>
>> See https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html for
>> a full list of changes.
>>
>> You can find the update installer or a full installer bundled with
>> latest versions of DMD and LDC here:
>>
>> https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rainer
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've gotten D articles to the frontpage of Hacker News 4 times.
> 
> I think this would be a good candidate to get to the frontpage of Hacker
> News again.
> 
> I want you to submit it to Hacker News, then add a comment saying:
> 
> * Explain why you made this
> * Explain what's interesting about Visual D
> * Offer to explain questions

> 
> Use the title: "Visual Studio Code for D Language 1.1.0"

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a user of these social news sites,
though, and even don't have time to keep track of discussions on the D
forums lately.

BTW: Visual D is not an extension for VS Code, but plain ol' Visual Studio.