Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects?

[Martin B]

On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 15:53:48 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> 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.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I've already wondered about 
strange highlighting in ST in a few cases - e.g `if( 
const(JSONValue)* v = "status_command" in json )`.