On Saturday, 4 July 2020 at 13:00:16 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
Hello,
after having passed the 10 year anniversary of public
availability recently, it is finally time to release version
1.0 of Visual D, the Visual Studio extension that adds D
language support to VS 2008-2019.
You can find the installer at
http://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html
Highlights from this release:
- semantic engine based on dmd front end now enabled by default
and updated to 2.092. If you are low on memory or run a 32-bit
Windows, you should switch back to the legacy engine.
- debugger extension mago will now evaluate struct or class
properties (methods or fields) __debugOverview, __debugExpanded
and __debugTextView to customize the debugger display. mago can
even display forward ranges as a list, but that is currently
rather slow, so it is disabled by default (see debugger
options).
- the bar on the top of the edit window now displays the
current edit scope and allows faster navigation within a source
file (needs the dmd based engine)
- ever wondered how to navigate to the type of a variable
declared by `auto` inference? clicking an identifier in a tool
tip from intellisense will now jump to its definition (only
with the dmd based engine)
See
https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/VersionHistory.html
for the complete list of changes.
Cheers,
Rainer
congratulation for this milestone. In open source software people
often stagnate forever in their 0.y.z versions so this is wise
decision, also because as it's not a library the semver rules
matter less.
This would have been worth a post in D.announce but D.learn is
nice too I suppose ;)
