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dlangide
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buggins / dlangide
dlangide
D language IDE based on DlangUI
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesTFtfcat·Dec 31, 2019
DLangIDE* (somehow not listed on dlang's official editor list) is sincerely the best I've used in terms of IDEs, but for most work, there's not much that can beat plain Sublime 3.
* https://github.com/buggins/dlangide
In Ask HN: D programmers, what does your development setup look like?IIUC, there's https://github.com/buggins/dlangide that's gonna become a RAD tool, based on this GUI library: https://github.com/buggins/dlangui .
In Lazarus Version 1.6I definitely agree with you. I've been helping out with https://github.com/buggins/dlangide to improve the editor situation for Linux. Still is pretty alpha at the moment.
In D 2.067 released