Ary Borenszweig escribió:
The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching
and debugging code in D.
Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
New features:
- Compile-time view (Window -> Show View -> Other -> D -> Compile-time
View): allows you to see things from the compiler point of view, which
applies some transformations to the source code. For example you can see
what happens when you do a foreach, when you invoke an "extension
method", when you do operator overloading; know what type has an auto
variable; how struct fields are accessed?; compiler optimizations. It
also removes conditionals that evaluate to false, and shows the results
of mixins in-place. As always, this is far from perfect and a lot of
things can be improved. For the lazies, I'll later upload a video about
this. :-)
- Now hovering over a mixin (over the "mixin" keyword) shows it's
result in a popup.
- Now hovering over a function or template instance with ctrl+shift
shows it's compile-time result (with shift only: it's source code).
Just a small remark: the probability that these things stop working is
bigger if the code is spread in many modules. That's because I did some
optimizations and lazy loading of some symbols, and sometimes it doesn't
work (I'll fix that, eveeeeeeentualy). So this should work better in a
single module. That's why this should be a good aid for prototyping new
functionality that heavily uses mixins, templates and compile-time
evaluation. :-)
