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[Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 14:57:28 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> What I would most like to see in the future would be a more 
> complete and simplified set of tools for D.
>
> I believe there should be at least one full-featured tool for 
> each operating system, which includes syntax highlighting, 
> auto-complete, symbol-information on hover, go to declaration, 
> and runtime debugging for D. It should also include at least 
> basic syntax highlighting for C++, and the ability to build and 
> link that C++ code with the D program. I believe this tool 
> should be self contained, and installable with a single click. 
> An end user of the D programming language should never have to 
> know anything about what dependencies are needed or installed 
> for a given addon/extension.
>
> I believe such a set of tools is well within reach. Some 
> existing tools are already very close to what I've described 
> above.

I believe DlangIDE can become such tool.
Runs on all platforms. Small.

> which includes syntax highlighting, auto-complete, 
> symbol-information on hover, go to declaration,

Supports it using embedded DCD.

> and runtime debugging for D.

Debugging needs a lot of improvements to became usable.

Project is easy to contribute for D developers since written in D.