No extensions in Atom/VS Code provides linting

[Andre Pany]

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 00:13:19 UTC, Hossain Adnan 
wrote:
> I'm making this thread to share my frustration in setting up 
> Dlang development tools using VS Code in Ubuntu 19.04.
>
> I have a small ongoing project using GTK and Rust but Rust's BC 
> had been giving me trouble in borrowing mutable references 
> across the different widgets (for example button click 
> handlers). So I had created a branch and wanted to start 
> rewriting it in D/GtkD before the project gets too complex. 
> What I didn't know:
>
> 1. The builtin package for dub is broken:
> `#apt install dub`, it installs just fine but as soon as I 
> tried initiating a project dub throws a runtime error and 
> throws some demangled symbol name. It looks like a problem in 
> Debian unstable and the known issue hasn't been fixed in a 
> while.
>
> This prompted me to install dlang tools from the "install.sh" 
> script. It does a fine job except that it could automate 
> setting up PATH by itself, but no worries it's not a big issue.
>
> 2. VS Code extensions don't work:
> Once I installed dmd and dub from the script file I opened up 
> VS Code, there are (as far as I understand) two mainstream 
> extensions for Dlang: Dlang using DLS and Code-D. Great.
>
> When I installed DLS plugin, it said something about 
> "installing DLS"... and that's about it. Formatting works but 
> there's no linting whatsoever.
>
> Code-D -- same outcome, no linting.
>
> So I opened up issues on both the repos. Why does it have to be 
> so difficult to set up and get started with coding? Not to 
> start a flame-war or something but Rust sets a gold-standard of 
> how tooling should be

-- they should just work! All I had to do
> with Rust, is install the RLS plugin and that's it -- Linting, 
> formatting, highlights -- all just work.

I cannot say much for running VS Code on linux. I tested VS Code 
with DLS on windows and I was really surprised because it worked 
out of the box including linting, code formatting and code 
completion.

Your issue seems to be OS specific. I stopped using VS code 
because the way VS Code in general works is for me a blocker.

Kind regards
Andre