[Issue 13912] Offer to 'import missing packages' like C# and Java

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Fri Jan 2 03:16:40 PST 2015


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13912

--- Comment #2 from Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> ---
Do you think it's particularly hard?

I would have thought all the cool advanced helper tools would becomes a lot
easier with D since everything is namespaced properly, and there's no
preprocessor...

Well it's obviously not urgent anyway, but it's nice to have these things on
the list.
I think import insertion would be a big win; D has a lot of modules. Try and do
some string processing, you'll end up with 6 imports for different modules with
string related functions.
My problem more often than not is that I can never remember which arbitrary
module different phobos functions come from. A popup helper would save me from
that :)


On a side note, if we were able to approach the C# experience, or at least
exceeding the C++ experience, I think it would create a powerful attraction for
C++ users towards D.

Mago really helps the debug experience! It feels a lot more natural now, but at
least in my work where I'm always linking against C/C++ code, I can't lose the
C debugger >_<

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