Intellij d plugin

[Ramon via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 07:46:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just to let you know I've started work again on my d language 
> support plugin for intellij.
>
> My original attempt was using the eclipse DDT parser but it had 
> severe performance problems due to the way I had to connect it 
> due to IntelliJ various restrictions on external parsers etc
>
> Anyway I've spent a lot of this year learning how to write 
> grammars in bnf format from scratch and have begun implementing 
> again from the ground up using the grammar I'm working on.
>
> I'm aware there is another D plugin already in the IntelliJ 
> library list made by someone else - however it's only got very 
> basic support and the grammar has many holes and issues etc. So 
> I believe my plugin will supersede this one in time as I 
> already implemented quite a lot of features on the original DDT 
> based version. So it's not a big effort to add those back in.
>
> I'm aiming to get the first cut out by end of the year with all 
> the features of my previous attemp minus the horrible 
> performance - this included code folding, syntax highlighting, 
> jump to definitions, quick find, code completion, syntax 
> checking, dub support and auto run configurations. It did not 
> include quick fixes, refactoring support or debugging. The 
> second milestone mid 2016 aims to bring quick fixes, 
> refactoring tools and minor improvements. Then the end of next 
> year I hope to complete debugger support.
>
> It's a slow but steady plan of progress which might go faster 
> or slower depending on life etc
>
> GitHub.com/kingsleyh/DLanguage

Why will you implement a parser D?
You might consider using https://github.com/Hackerpilot tools as 
the backend for your plugin