Descent 0.2

March 7th, 2007 | by Aldacron |

Ary Manzana has announced the release of Descent 0.2, an Eclipse plugin for D. From the NG post:

This release features:

- a nice and useful editor
- folding
- automatic closing of strings, brackets, chars and comments
- a complete outline view
- automatic documentation generation over types and functions (try
typing “/**” + Enter over a type or function with some parameters and
return type
- some code templates (for, foreach, new, cast)
- New Package and New Module wizards
- Some preferences (like colors of the syntax highligting, file templates, initial foldings).
- The inability to rename a file
- Still no automatic formatting (bad for the code templates, also)

…

Currently the plugin just serves as a not-that-dummy editor: it doesn’t

do autocompletion and it doesn’t compile, and you can’t launch or deubg

application from within it.

So even though it’s not feature complete, it may be useful to some people. I’m going to give it a go on Linux. As part of my Great Linux Experiment, I’ve settled on Eclipse not only as my Java IDE but also for C and C++ development. It would be nice to be able to use it with support for D as well. I’m used to manually compiling my D projects, so that’s no big deal.

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