would you use a VS-like IDE for D in your everyday?

Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole richard at cattermole.co.nz
Thu May 22 06:15:47 UTC 2025


On 22/05/2025 6:04 PM, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 at 16:21:06 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 at 15:45:58 UTC, Neto wrote:
>>> or such a thing is a waste of time? I wonder why we didn't have such 
>>> IDE yet or am I missing something?
>>
>> We _do_ have VS-like IDEs for D. I use IntelliJ IDEA with D plugin, as 
>> well as Zed with D extension which also works very well. There is also 
>> an excellent D plugin for VS Code itself that works in TheiaIDE too.
> 
> It appears a significant limitation at the moment is an inability to run 
> some of the DMD based tools on Apple silicon. According to Rikki's 
> message a fix might not be available until next year (https:// 
> forum.dlang.org/thread/zblfxasjvskzpkfvdepl at forum.dlang.org). Perhaps 
> important enough to bring to the attention of the D Language Foundation.
> 
> --Jon

The issue for OSX currently, is in druntime.

I expect next dmd release will have it solved, otherwise it couldn't be 
shipped.



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