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digitalmars.D.announce - Visual D 1.0.1 released

reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Hi,

an update for Visual D has just been made available. Visual D is a
Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS 2008-2019.

The most important part of the update is that the semantic engine is now
based on the latest compiler release 2.093.1. There are a few other
improvements and bug fixes, e.g. support for navigation with
forward/backward mouse buttons and fixed documentation tool tips for
template functions.

See the full version history here:
https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html

You can download the update installer or the full installer bundled with
DMD 2.093.1 and LDC 1.23.0 from

  https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html

Cheers,
Rainer
Aug 23 2020
next sibling parent kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:
Thx Rainer, much appreciated.
Aug 23 2020
prev sibling next sibling parent reply mw <mingwu gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 23 August 2020 at 07:33:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 an update for Visual D has just been made available. Visual D 
 is a Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS 
 2008-2019.

 The most important part of the update is that the semantic 
 engine is now based on the latest compiler release 2.093.1. 
 There are a few other improvements and bug fixes, e.g. support 
 for navigation with forward/backward mouse buttons and fixed 
 documentation tool tips for template functions.

 See the full version history here: 
 https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html

 You can download the update installer or the full installer 
 bundled with DMD 2.093.1 and LDC 1.23.0 from

   https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html



Thanks for the update.

I just tried, and found two issues:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21193
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21194

Basically, I cannot build unit-threaded_property.lib (saying 
corrupt MS Coff object) with VisualD, but I can build on Windows 
using command line:

C:\project\dlang\dmd-2.093.1\windows\bin64\dub.exe test 
--build=unittest
Aug 24 2020
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 25/08/2020 07:25, mw wrote:

 On Sunday, 23 August 2020 at 07:33:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 Hi,

 an update for Visual D has just been made available. Visual D is a
 Visual Studio extension that adds D language support to VS 2008-2019.

 The most important part of the update is that the semantic engine is
 now based on the latest compiler release 2.093.1. There are a few
 other improvements and bug fixes, e.g. support for navigation with
 forward/backward mouse buttons and fixed documentation tool tips for
 template functions.

 See the full version history here:
 https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html

 You can download the update installer or the full installer bundled
 with DMD 2.093.1 and LDC 1.23.0 from

   https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html


 
 
 Thanks for the update.
 
 I just tried, and found two issues:
 
 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21193
 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21194
 
 Basically, I cannot build unit-threaded_property.lib (saying corrupt MS
 Coff object) with VisualD, but I can build on Windows using command line:
 
 C:\project\dlang\dmd-2.093.1\windows\bin64\dub.exe test --build=unittest
 


I responded in the bug reports, I suspect some issue with dub's project
generation.
Aug 25 2020
prev sibling parent reply Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 23 August 2020 at 07:33:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 The most important part of the update is that the semantic 
 engine is now based on the latest compiler release 2.093.1.


- Does the engine have a feature list?
- Is the engine relatively independent of Windows?
- Does engine integrate with language server (in a platform 
independent way)?
- Are there any plans for cross-platform (Linux) support?

I'm dying to get a semantic engine that supports code navigation 
to (and completion of) overloaded functions at their call site 
including UFCS-calls. DCD doesn't support these two features.
Aug 25 2020
next sibling parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 25/08/2020 22:37, Per Nordlöw wrote:

 On Sunday, 23 August 2020 at 07:33:01 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 The most important part of the update is that the semantic engine is
 now based on the latest compiler release 2.093.1.


 
 - Does the engine have a feature list?


Unfortunately the feature list in the documentation has bitrotten a bit.
You can get an idea of the functionality from the interface file:
https://github.com/dlang/visuald/blob/master/vdc/ivdserver.d


 - Is the engine relatively independent of Windows?


Mostly, but the interface to the IDE, which is a Local COM server.


 - Does engine integrate with language server (in a platform independent
 way)?


The concept is similar, but predates the Language Server protocol.

Last time I tried, LSP based language services don't work well together
with other services for the same language in Visual Studio.


 - Are there any plans for cross-platform (Linux) support?


Not really. I think most of the code could be integrated with the dmd
code base (changeset is
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/stable...rainers:dmdserver), but I
currently don't have too much time for that. That way an LSP based
service could be adopted to provide similar functionality.


 
 I'm dying to get a semantic engine that supports code navigation to (and
 completion of) overloaded functions at their call site including
 UFCS-calls. DCD doesn't support these two features.


Navigation should be fine, but completion is usually on non-compilable
code, so it's not always perfect. IMO it has improved in comparison to
the DParser based engine, though.
Aug 25 2020
prev sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 25 August 2020 at 20:37:38 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:


 I'm dying to get a semantic engine that supports code 
 navigation to (and completion of) overloaded functions at their 
 call site including UFCS-calls. DCD doesn't support these two 
 features.


I have interest in a LSP server based on the DMD frontend as 
well. There's also a SAoC 2020 project related to DMD as a 
library [1]. Was there another master thesis (or similar) that 
would work on a LSP server as well? Either sponsored by Symmetry 
or related to the University of Bucharest.

We should try to work together instead of duplicating the work. 
Although I've given up on the DMD upstream project and instead, 
I've forked it [2] to be able to do the necessary changes.

[1] 
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/23/symmetry-autumn-of-code-2020-projects-and-participants

[2] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/ddc

--
/Jacob Carlborg
Aug 25 2020