Visual D 1.1.0 released

[Petar]

On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 at 07:29:44 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
>
>
> On 06/03/2021 12:55, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Saturday, 6 March 2021 at 06:59:28 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2021 12:26, Imperatorn wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 5 March 2021 at 10:57:05 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 13:42:47 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>>>>>> https://filebin.net/19gupoeedfdjx5tx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One GIF is the behaviour in C# I would like to have in D 
>>>>>> as well with static if, and the other is displaying typeid 
>>>>>> on hover.
>>>>>
>>>>> The second is a debug session. Visual Studio doesn't show 
>>>>> type information in debug session for C# either, only 
>>>>> variable name and value.
>>>>
>>>> True, but could it?
>>>
>>> Visual D already does that with the help of the semantic 
>>> highlighting: if an identifier is classified as a type or 
>>> compile time value, it suppresses the debugger data tool tip 
>>> and presents the usual one.
>> 
>> Oh, I see. What about dub integration. How much effort would 
>> it be to have something similar to what code-d has in vsc? 
>> Guesstimation?
>
> I'm not much of a dub user. Last time I checked, using it as a 
> package manager was fine, but not as a build tool. Dependency 
> checks were incomplete and rather slow. The visuald project 
> generation is pretty dated and doesn't support multiple 
> configurations which kind of breaks the usual VS workflow.
>
> I think for better integration dub project generation needs to 
> be improved (and extended to vcxproj files), or Visual D has to 
> do it itself from "dub describe" (if that's possible). The 
> latter would also allow seamless updates of the project in the 
> background.
>
> Then, integration of package management can be considered.

As far as I remember (circa 2015) Mono-D [0] was the IDE with the 
best Dub support - you could just open dub.json files as if they 
were project files (sln/csproj). This was by far the most 
seamless experience back when I was using IDEs more heavily.

Visual-D could also use Dub as a library, similar to [1][2]. Also 
it would be nice to integrate code.dlang.org, just like NuGet is 
integrated for .NET in VS.

[0]: https://wiki.dlang.org/Mono-D
[1]: https://github.com/Pure-D/workspace-d
[2]: 
https://github.com/atilaneves/reggae/tree/master/src/reggae/dub/interop