I just want to code in peace

[aberba]

On Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 14:09:19 UTC, Avrina wrote:
> There was funding for code-d, but I don't know if anything came 
> of it. I've looked at the code and it is kind of awful. I would 
> have much rather DLS be funded instead.
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/2018/07/13/funding-code-d/
>
> The VisualD plugin is probably the best one out there. But most 
> people seem to hate Visual Studio because they need to download 
> a 1-2 GB file and are developing on a computer with 1 GB of RAM.

Tell you what, I don't use Windows but I can tell with confidence 
that Visual Studio is the way to go if you want a great IDE on 
Windows. And VisualD is your best bet with D. If you're on 
Windows, its your tool.

Clion, etc is Java based and from experience slow. Not much 
better than Visual Studio Code... which is web based.

On Linux, the IDE that comes close to Visual Studio is Gnome 
Builder. Its the Visual Studio of Linux. I remember someone here 
developed a plug-in for D but not sure if it received further 
improvement.

So to satisfy the IDE land, you want to look at solid plug-ins 
for Visual Studio for windows (Mac??), and Gnome Builder for 
Linux.


With that said, if you could do with a lil slow/subpar 
performance with text editors, your best bet is Visual Studio 
Code (code-d), Sublime (??), Vim (??), Clion (I believe there's 
one),....


I personally use Visual Studio Code which is kind of slow 
sometimes but its the best I've got. Code-d might not be perfect 
but I can says it provides the best D experience overall.

Like someone said, D autocompletion is hard and tricky. To make 
things worst, there's almost zero official backing to standardize 
some of these things.

Seb is your closest best to someone (I have noticed) has 
consistently invested time and energy to packaging D experience 
across the board.