Which tools do you miss in D?

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 19:59:44 PST 2014


On 28 January 2014 13:43, Jakob Ovrum <jakobovrum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 27 January 2014 at 13:12:56 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> D doesn't have a preprocessor or a horrible network of text include, it
>> should easily be able to match the C# experiences in general.
>>
>
> No, it's much, much harder because of templates and string mixins.
>
> The only way to get a solid auto-complete experience for D is to use a
> compiler-as-library, which is why I think the approach that VisualD and
> Mono-D (and DScanner to some extent, IIRC) takes is a colossal waste of
> time, as "good enough" will in fact never be good enough.
>

Yeah, good point. I've heard murmurings of kitting DMD frontend out as a
lib for tooling being thrown around as long as I've been trolling here.
It must be really hard... or really really uninteresting :)
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