VisualD regressions are severe; what do we do about critical infrastructure?

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 15/10/2024 10:07 PM, Manu wrote:
> ...to make this worse; Rainer has effectively checked-out too. We've 
> lost another one of our finest.

He implemented the negative annotation exportation switches for dmd at 
end of last year.

(dllimport and visibility)

Druntime/phobos are not currently offered as a shared library though.

That was a MAJOR contribution to dmd.

> I now recognise a really major conundrum; I've recently returned to D to 
> start a company with a greenfields project. VisualD failing is 
> essentially terminal. I'm not sure what to do. I don't have time 
> available to try and pick up the project and work it myself, but the 
> current state is really pushing at the border of forcing me to 
> completely rewrite all my code in C++ on account of ecosystem reliability.

Over the past year, VisualD has broken a couple of times.

The fix appears to update & recompile it.

Personally I only use VisualD for debugging, and Intellij for development.