Productive vibe.d dev environment (IDE, debugger) on Linux?

[Carlin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 3 May 2017 at 17:43:07 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> can anyone recommend a more or less production-ready dev 
> environment for vibe.d on Linux?
> I'm evaluating vibe.d against Phoenix (Elixir/Erlang) for a new 
> project. Today I gave Visual Studio Code a quick shot (with LDC 
> 1.1.1 and DMD 2.071/72/74), with Webfreak's plugins, but I'm 
> not happy at all (gdb/lldb crashing most of the time incl. 
> debugged process, no AutoComplete/IntelliSense due to problems 
> when building some of the plugin dependencies etc.).
>
> Any hints are greatly appreciated, as I'm really impressed by 
> vibe.d itself so far.

I find MonoDevelop on Linux / Xarmain Studio on Windows with the 
D language plugin works quite well with Vibe 0.7.30 (OSX is worse 
but still somewhat useable). Code completion doesn't seem to work 
well with later versions. I've not tried debugging on Windows but 
on Linux there is support to use GDB which gives you breakpoints 
and things inside the IDE. I've not used it beyond breakpoints 
and inspecting variables I don't know what will work. I've heard 
that GDC works better with GDB than the other compilers but I've 
not personally verified that.