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

[Jon Degenhardt]

On Thursday, 22 May 2025 at 18:57:56 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> On 22/05/2025 8:39 PM, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> On Thursday, 22 May 2025 at 06:04:00 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> Why is that a problem? - You have GDC or LDC as good 
>> alternatives.
>
> They are both effected by the same druntime bug.
>
> You have to use the ldc beta to compile on OSX currently.

It was my understanding that IntelliJ currently requires a DMD 
install and does not support an LDC-only configuration.

Rikki - I'm referring to this message in the other thread:

On Monday, 12 May 2025 at 22:51:30 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> On 13/05/2025 10:48 AM, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
>> I was trying to setup an existing project to work with the 
>> IntelliJ plugin.
>> It's a makefile built project, not one built with Dub.
>> But I'm seeing configuration issues. For example, IntelliJ 
>> asks for an SDK setup. I haven't figured out how to set this 
>> up properly. I'm guessing the plugin would pull this from a 
>> Dub configuration if there was one in the project.
>
> The SDK it is referring to the dmd install (not ldc/gdc).
>
> Its implemented via the JDK configuration (which isn't 
> available in all versions of IntelliJ).

Let me know if I misinterpreted.

I did get LDC builds to run from IntelliJ (using a separate 
makefile plugin). But its rather disconnected from what's going 
on in the IDE, so the IDE benefits were limited. I was able to 
get github copilot to interact with D code, so that was positive.

--Jon

PS. I very much appreciate the quick responses to my initial 
questions. Very helpful.