DlangIDE v0.8.0 released

[Vadim Lopatin]

On Tuesday, 26 September 2017 at 22:35:09 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> 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 help but assume the IDE was outdated and probably be 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.

For Windows, added libfreetype 2.8.1 dlls.

Made additional fixes for better font rendering.

Win32 binaries are uploaded to
https://github.com/buggins/dlangide/releases/tag/v0.8.2

To disable freetype, delete libfreetype-6.dll

Consolas/Menlo are already selected if "Default" font is chosen 
for editors.