D tooling is disappointing

[Paul Backus]

On Wednesday, 17 August 2022 at 10:45:16 UTC, tastyminerals wrote:
> Many of us use vim for quick scripting and if so, you know 
> about handy [vim-dutyl](https://github.com/idanarye/vim-dutyl) 
> plugin. If you're a MacVim user, you might already know about 
> sad [d-completion-daemon status in 
> MacPorts](https://i.imgur.com/qUtRpG3.png). There is no 
> maintainer for the only usable D autocompletion plugin for Vim. 
> Truth to be told, the actual vim-dutyl looks abandoned too.

I use Vim for D programming with [`dmdtags`][1] for navigation, 
[some simple config files][2] for compiler integration and quick 
doc access, and Vim's built-in completion features. It's not as 
polished an experience as you'd get from a real IDE, but it's 
enough to get work done.

[1]: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.72.1630470149.21945.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com
[2]: 
https://gist.github.com/pbackus/12e407ae96a54ced6ea9b3f72be25264