Best IDE

[karabuta via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 00:20:12 UTC, Brandon Ragland wrote:
> Just curious who thinks what IDE is best?
>
> I don't think any IDE is perfect, and I've been using Eclipse 
> with DDT and have been having a good time with it. However I 
> don't particularly like Eclipse much, and was wondering what 
> others though?
>
> I don't use Windows myself so I couldn't use VisualD or 
> anything like that or try it out.
>
> -Brandon

I use Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu. Atom has a nice syntax coloring 
functionality as well as many packages you can install to give 
you more. In fact, packages can be written in Atom to do almost 
any task(D programming  related tasks).

Some of the interesting packages I use include:

1. language-d  - D support and auto-completion

2. d-struct    - Running dub projects, etc.

3. term        - using terminal within the editor (great when u 
want to run code using both dub and manual

4. atom-clang and language-c  - support and linting c code with 
clang installed

5. atom-dlang  - also D support, but I use it and language-d

6. tested      - code testing, unittest, profiling, mmHH I guess. 
Any way try it.

7. script      - For running D code with Ctrl + Shift + B (Auto 
detects the programming language and does  compilation and 
linking automatically). Also displays result in the editors' 
terminal.

8. tool-bar - provides a toolbar in the editor for click and 
execute (used by some packages to present icons buttons). 
Required for "tested" package

9. linter-dscanner - works in conjunction with Dscanner (I 
haven't figured how to get it to work yet.


These will also give you some extra convenience:
1. minimap - Gives you side minimap like you find in sublime text 
editor

2. atom-beautify - code beatification :)

I also use "consolas" font which makes my code look like ice 
cream. There are tones of packages for almost every programming 
language as well as themes. If you like sublime, I think you will 
love Atom. Check it out at atom.io. (linux, windows, mac, etc.)