I just want to code in peace

[bauss]

On Saturday, 6 June 2020 at 17:12:01 UTC, aberba wrote:
> 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.

VisualD doesn't work well with Dub though and that's a huge deal 
for me at least.

You can convert projects between each other but it's meh.

If VisualD just supported dub configs then it would be much 
better.