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

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 15 October 2024 at 09:42:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
> To be clear, it's broken in almost every single 
> semantic-related task that
> it performs.
> The way you describe here is because MS have changed their VS 
> release model
> so make major revision increments every couple of months rather 
> than every
> couple of years... and so yes, it needs to be regularly 
> recompiled, but
> that's not the cause of any functionality regression.
>
> Personally I only use VisualD for debugging, and Intellij for 
> development.

I use VisualD a lot and I had sadly to disable semantic analysis.
You do loose completion, but still keep syntax, debugging, and 
search.
So it did become worse but what can we do to encourage things to 
become better?
DParser crashes are quite hard and time-consuming to isolate.