• Hossain Adnan (29/29) Sep 24 2019 I'm making this thread to share my frustration in setting up
• Andre Pany (11/42) Sep 26 2019 -- they should just work! All I had to do
• Hossain Adnan (9/22) Sep 27 2019 I don't think it's OS specific. I tried using the intellij idea
• Paolo Invernizzi (8/15) Sep 29 2019 I suggest you this as a workaround, after having removed any

Hossain Adnan <relay.public.adnan outlook.com> writes:

I'm making this thread to share my frustration in setting up 
Dlang development tools using VS Code in Ubuntu 19.04.

I have a small ongoing project using GTK and Rust but Rust's BC 
had been giving me trouble in borrowing mutable references across 
the different widgets (for example button click handlers). So I 
had created a branch and wanted to start rewriting it in D/GtkD 
before the project gets too complex. What I didn't know:

1. The builtin package for dub is broken:
`#apt install dub`, it installs just fine but as soon as I tried 
initiating a project dub throws a runtime error and throws some 
demangled symbol name. It looks like a problem in Debian unstable 
and the known issue hasn't been fixed in a while.

This prompted me to install dlang tools from the "install.sh" 
script. It does a fine job except that it could automate setting 
up PATH by itself, but no worries it's not a big issue.

2. VS Code extensions don't work:
Once I installed dmd and dub from the script file I opened up VS 
Code, there are (as far as I understand) two mainstream 
extensions for Dlang: Dlang using DLS and Code-D. Great.

When I installed DLS plugin, it said something about "installing 
DLS"... and that's about it. Formatting works but there's no 
linting whatsoever.

Code-D -- same outcome, no linting.

So I opened up issues on both the repos. Why does it have to be 
so difficult to set up and get started with coding? Not to start 
a flame-war or something but Rust sets a gold-standard of how 
tooling should be -- they should just work! All I had to do with 
Rust, is install the RLS plugin and that's it -- Linting, 
formatting, highlights -- all just work.

Andre Pany <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 00:13:19 UTC, Hossain Adnan 
wrote:
 I'm making this thread to share my frustration in setting up 
 Dlang development tools using VS Code in Ubuntu 19.04.

 I have a small ongoing project using GTK and Rust but Rust's BC 
 had been giving me trouble in borrowing mutable references 
 across the different widgets (for example button click 
 handlers). So I had created a branch and wanted to start 
 rewriting it in D/GtkD before the project gets too complex. 
 What I didn't know:

 1. The builtin package for dub is broken:
 `#apt install dub`, it installs just fine but as soon as I 
 tried initiating a project dub throws a runtime error and 
 throws some demangled symbol name. It looks like a problem in 
 Debian unstable and the known issue hasn't been fixed in a 
 while.

 This prompted me to install dlang tools from the "install.sh" 
 script. It does a fine job except that it could automate 
 setting up PATH by itself, but no worries it's not a big issue.

 2. VS Code extensions don't work:
 Once I installed dmd and dub from the script file I opened up 
 VS Code, there are (as far as I understand) two mainstream 
 extensions for Dlang: Dlang using DLS and Code-D. Great.

 When I installed DLS plugin, it said something about 
 "installing DLS"... and that's about it. Formatting works but 
 there's no linting whatsoever.

 Code-D -- same outcome, no linting.

 So I opened up issues on both the repos. Why does it have to be 
 so difficult to set up and get started with coding? Not to 
 start a flame-war or something but Rust sets a gold-standard of 
 how tooling should be

-- they should just work! All I had to do
 with Rust, is install the RLS plugin and that's it -- Linting, 
 formatting, highlights -- all just work.

I cannot say much for running VS Code on linux. I tested VS Code 
with DLS on windows and I was really surprised because it worked 
out of the box including linting, code formatting and code 
completion.

Your issue seems to be OS specific. I stopped using VS code 
because the way VS Code in general works is for me a blocker.

Kind regards
Andre

Hossain Adnan <relay.public.adnan outlook.com> writes:

On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:18:34 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
 On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 00:13:19 UTC, Hossain Adnan 
 wrote:
 [...]

 -- they should just work! All I had to do
 [...]

 I cannot say much for running VS Code on linux. I tested VS 
 Code with DLS on windows and I was really surprised because it 
 worked out of the box including linting, code formatting and 
 code completion.

 Your issue seems to be OS specific. I stopped using VS code 
 because the way VS Code in general works is for me a blocker.

 Kind regards
 Andre

I don't think it's OS specific. I tried using the intellij idea 
community edition and the DLanguage extension. Linting works 
fine. However I've been getting this weird error (I reported it) 
when formatting. I reported it 
(https://github.com/intellij-dlanguage/intellij-dlanguage/issues/519).

Currently IntelliJ is my only hope. But I refuse to believe 
Dscanner is useless to this extent 
(https://github.com/d-language-server/vscode-dlang/issues/18#issuecomment-534907556)

Paolo Invernizzi <paolo.invernizzi gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 00:13:19 UTC, Hossain Adnan 
wrote:

 2. VS Code extensions don't work:
 Once I installed dmd and dub from the script file I opened up 
 VS Code, there are (as far as I understand) two mainstream 
 extensions for Dlang: Dlang using DLS and Code-D. Great.

 When I installed DLS plugin, it said something about 
 "installing DLS"... and that's about it. Formatting works but 
 there's no linting whatsoever.

I suggest you this as a workaround, after having removed any 
version of dls present in your `~/.dub/packages` directory:

dub fetch dls
dub run dls:bootstrap

That usually worked for me, when I've encountered your issue in 
the past