Coding Assistance Tooling, why so many scattered projects?

[Martin B]

On Saturday, 23 April 2022 at 11:49:21 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:
> On Friday, 22 April 2022 at 17:41:01 UTC, Martin B wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Recently, I wanted to improve my experience with dlang in 
>> sublime text and tried several solutions. The ones with the 
>> most potential and which are (imo) futureproof are the LSP 
>> based solutions "dls" and "serve-d". Unfortunately both are 
>> somehow incomplete, dls has features that are missing in 
>> serve-d and vice versa.
>> [...]
>
> An ordinary text editor is enough for me.  And I don't think 
> this is an exception.  But dub really makes life easier...
>
> SDB at 79

Are we talking MS notepad.exe? :)
I (also) don´t like big IDEs and prefer rather lightweight 
editors - sublime text is somewhere between Notepad++ and MS 
VSCode. But IMO good code navigation, signature/parameter hints 
and a proper code highlighting are the minimum.