D on Visual Studio?

[Martin Fuchs]

"kmd" <KeeperMustDie at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:fc6kmu$gh$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Thanks, I'll check it. Still I wish that D would fully work on VS. It can
> improve D language popularity greatly. I think D really good language
> but I using only VS as editor.

What is really missing for D to become usable in bigger projects is
an integrated development environment with a working debugger.

This is what I understand by a *working* integrated debugger:

a.) You should be able to set breakpoints directly in the source code,
  halt the program at this breakpoints, step into the debugee, set new
  breakpoints, etc. All a sensible debugger is able to do.  ;-)
  This is currently partly possible with the VC++ IDE, as it can read in the
  debugging info of the D compiler in OMF format (same as with windbg).
  However it seems, this doesn't work all times. Setting breakpoints in an 
IDE
  may also be possible with GDB based debuggers on Linux if using GDC,
  however I didn't try this yet.

b.) You should be able to display the current values of all variables in a
  debugged program. This debugging info is not complete or  can not
  displayed completely within the debuggers - I am not sure what's all 
missing
  here. But this is an important point, which makes debugger sessions for
  D programs *useless* todays, because you can only see simple variables
  like e.g. that if type "int". And who wants to start development if he
  can't find and fix bugs in a convenient way? Inserting printf calls to
  display the current variables can't be the solution.

So who will extend D debugging info and/or starts a project for extending
an IDE like Visual Studio to be able to overcome the current shortcomings?!

Regards,

   Martin