Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects?

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Recently, I wanted to improve my experience with dlang in 
> sublime text and tried several solutions.

I am the author of 
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter-contrib-dmd, 
which is the D syntax checking plugin for Sublime Text. I have 
contributed a couple of PRs for their D syntax highlighter as 
well. Sublime Text is a bit special regarding syntax 
highlighting, as they use their own regular expression engine, 
and so cannot use generalised language server solutions. At least 
that was the answer I got from the devs a few years ago, when I 
asked whether a dmd-as-a-library solution would be viable. So 
consolidating efforts is harder in Sublime’s case, as it wants to 
be different. As far as I know, only Visual Studio (proper) has a 
dmd-based language server: VisualD.

— Bastiaan.