DlangIDE v0.8.0 released

[bitwise]

On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 at 15:20:54 UTC, Vadim Lopatin 
wrote:
> New DlangIDE version is released.

I've only had time to take a quick look, but this IDE seems 
pretty good. I was surprised at how fast it loaded up, and how it 
downloaded the dependencies for the sample project on it's own.

The text rendering needs work though. Honestly, I passed this 
editor up the first time I came across it because of the way the 
text looks. It reminds me of Visual Studio 2005. I couldn't help 
but assume the IDE was outdated and probably be abandon-ware.

I would definitely change the default font to the platform-IDE 
defaults:

Visual Studio: Consolas
XCode: Menlo Regular

Also, FreeType has made improvements lately, and now does a much 
better job of rendering fonts at small sizes(no so blurry). In 
particular 2.8.1, which just came out, implements a patent-free 
substitute for MS style clear-type rendering[1][2].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/nK8Xu.png
[2] 
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD

The thick bezels and deep 3D shading make it look retro as well.