• WebFreak001 (60/60) Nov 13 2019 hi everyone,
• Doc Andrew (1/1) Nov 13 2019 Awesome, thanks for all the hard work on this!
• Aliak (2/6) Nov 14 2019 Wow! Well done on the effort!!
• uranuz (26/27) Nov 18 2019 Hello!
• WebFreak001 (5/16) Nov 23 2019 uhh I didn't archive that (it comes from DCD) and it worked with

WebFreak001 <d.forum webfreak.org> writes:

hi everyone,

after a long time there is finally a new update for my Visual 
Studio Code extension "code-d"

serve-d is my Language Server Protocol implementation in D using 
workspace-d as a backend. It implements a lot of features and is 
highly optimized for use with code-d.

code-d is my D extension for the code editor Visual Studio Code 
by Microsoft. It is currently the most popular/most installed 
extension for D on the vscode marketplace and offers a lot of 
functionality, especially for beginners. Especially after this 
update it is pretty stable and can be used productively.

This updates brings a lot more stability improvements, lots of 
bug fixes and a few cool new bigger features.

With this post I want to highlight:

- Precompiled binaries on all platforms -
OS X users will no longer have to wait for serve-d to compile 
from source, nightly (previously beta stream) builds are now 
always tested first and also available precompiled for all 
platforms. This also means you no longer need a powerful machine 
to use serve-d on these 3 OSes. There is also a new pre-release 
setting which will get you new features more quickly but still 
relatively stable. I would be happy to have as many people as 
possible who report bugs to switch to this channel.

This makes it extremely easy to start out with D by simply 
installing code-d in vscode and letting it setup everything plus 
guiding you to installing a D compiler. Only on windows you might 
still need to restart your PC to apply PATH changes. Windows 
installation is in general more stabilized on PCs now which have 
never had D installed before.

- New/Improved Code actions -
The "Implement Interface" command is now very well usable in 
common projects. I am not the most heavy user of this, but 
occasionally this is extremely helpful and I think people who 
code D a bit more Java-like will certainly like this feature.

- Big dub build performance improvements -
linting is usually at least 2x faster and is fixed in general now.

- Issue parsing -
build tasks now have a built-in issue parser, there are build 
tasks contributed by default which are editable now and the 
built-in dub lint on save can also show "instantiated from..." 
issues a lot smarter now

- Long standing bugs -
* a lot of startup issues fixed
* dml autocompletion fixed
* closing files didn't make warnings properly disappear / was 
badly configurable
* several sort import bugs fixed
* code-d compilation bugs fixed
* some exit error message boxes on windows fixed
* GC now run regularly
* a lot of syntax highlighting improvements

- Other changes -
There are some snippets for Diet now included. These will be 
replaced with a proper emmet generator soon though so they aren't 
advertised too much, but it should already improve life.

Read the full changelog on 
https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Install in Visual Studio Code by searching webfreak.code-d or see 
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.code-d

serve-d binaries: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d

Doc Andrew <x x.com> writes:

Awesome, thanks for all the hard work on this!

Aliak <something something.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 at 23:17:21 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
 hi everyone,

 after a long time there is finally a new update for my Visual 
 Studio Code extension "code-d"

 [...]

Wow! Well done on the effort!!

uranuz <neuranuz gmail.com> writes:

Hello!
When code-d attempts self upgrade it prints the followinf output 
to console of VS Code:
"""
Installing DCD: DCD is outdated. Expected: 0.11.1, got none
Downloading from 
https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD/releases/download/v0.11.1/dcd-v0.11.1
linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin
Zip file already exists! Trying to install existing zip.
Extracting download...
 tar xvfz dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Successfully downloaded DCD, but could not find the executables.
Please open your user settings and insert the paths for 
dcd-client and dcd-server manually.
Download base location: /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin

Tried "dcd-client", "dcd-server", "bin/dcd-client", 
"bin/dcd-server"
Successfully installed DCD
"""

Looks like something went wrong with extracting archive: 
dcd-v0.11.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz. This archive is not opening with 
standart Kubuntu GUI archiver like "Ark", but still I was able to 
"unzip" in through "unar" programme. Maybe you just archived it 
with some exotical settings of compression so it doesn't open 
everywhere.

WebFreak001 <d.forum webfreak.org> writes:

On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 05:12:11 UTC, uranuz wrote:
 Hello!
 When code-d attempts self upgrade it prints the followinf 
 output to console of VS Code:
 """
 Installing DCD: DCD is outdated. Expected: 0.11.1, got none
 Downloading from 
 https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD/releases/download/v0.11.1/dcd-v0.11.1
linux-x86_64.tar.gz to /home/uranuz/.local/share/code-d/bin
 Zip file already exists! Trying to install existing zip.
 Extracting download...
 [...]

 [...]

uhh I didn't archive that (it comes from DCD) and it worked with 
basically all other linux so far.

Maybe it got corrupted during the download, deleting it and 
letting it redownload should fix it in this case.