SublimeLinter-contrib-dmd: dmd feedback as you type

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 12:54:38 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 15:43:08 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 13:47:26 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds cool, I assume you use -o- option to disable DMD 
>>> codegen?
>>
>> yes
>>
>>> Should be fairly fast.
>>
>> indeed
>
> Surprising. Back in 2014 i used something similar to display 
> the AST in my IDE (also -o- but to get the JSON output) and 
> found it slow (especially in projects since the dmd command 
> line had to include all the imports and sources to avoid false 
> positives). Tt's been replaced by something based on libdparse, 
> which also allows to  show syntax errors fast.

To be frank, I have only tested this on the minimal examples from 
dlang.org. "Fast" and "slow" are subjective measures, the 
question is: when is it too slow? I am interested to hear how 
this does for people with large code bases, but because dmd works 
in the background and you don't have to wait for it to get your 
code typed out, I suppose speed is not very important as long as 
it stays within a few seconds. Remember it is used for linting 
only, if it were used for code completion or go-to-definition it 
could be too slow.