D AutoCompletion: is ycmd integration valuable?

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On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 14:05:32 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 4/15/15 9:15 AM, rcorre wrote:
>> For those who don't know, ycmd 
>> (https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd) is an
>> editor-agnostic completion engine that aims to reduce a lot of 
>> the
>> duplicate code written for handling autocompletions in 
>> different
>> language/editor combinations.
>>
>> A long time ago, there was a request to get D support 
>> integrated into ycmd:
>> https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/521
>>
>> It was closed as DCD was not 'stable' at the time. After DCD 
>> became
>> 'stable', it seemed there was nobody available to put together 
>> the ycmd
>> integration.
>>
>> Do people think there would be value in reviving this effort?
>>
>> I was playing around with integrating D completion into YCMD, 
>> but I'm
>> getting to the point where it is becoming non-trivial.
>>
>> I'm mainly interested in autocompletion in Vim, which already 
>> works
>> reasonably well with Dutyl (a plugin that, among other things, 
>> helps set
>> up vim's omnifunc to use DCD).
>>
>> Would it be worthwhile to try to move D completion forward by
>> integrating DCD with ycmd, or is it just better to keep 
>> working on
>> existing editor-specific solutions like Dutyl?
>
> I tried a while ago to setup DCD to be used in vim, with no 
> success (even having Brian's ear at dconf to look at the 
> issues, but he's not a vim guy).
>
> IMO, the most useful improvement would be to make an 
> easy-install package for DCD so it works with whatever editor 
> the install is for. What that uses in the background, I 
> couldn't care less :) So if ycmd is it, go for it. Just make it 
> so I can install it easy!
>
> -Steve

DCD has been usable from vim for a looong time, when was the last 
time you tried?