DCD

This plugin has been worked on and the issue could have been fixed by now. I rarely used VSCode for D because the language doesn're really need an IDE support like Java or Scala. But I do agree that for beginners and IDE support is important. I use vim with DCD: https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD

You're spot on that D is lacking a batteries-included IDE, but there are some good options available. D in emacs works very well, but you'll have to put some work into it. Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/) makes the work a little easier, here's my .spacemacs file if anyone is interested https://gitlab.com/snippets/1942930 Using that .spacemacs file you should be able to launch a fully prepped for D! The only other dependencies are a D compiler and DCD (https://github.com/dlang-community/DCD) built and in your PATH. I'd be happy to answer any questions if something doesn't work. Other IDEs with a languageserver implementation can make use of DLS https://github.com/d-language-server/dls. VSCode and sublime are two I've had good success with.. but I always end up back with emacs ;) As for a debugger, you can debug any D program with

> - Tooling. Are there any good dlang IDEs with ... code completion? The DCD utiltiy can drive the code completion for a bunch of editors/IDEs. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD It works well.

C++11 borrowed a few good ideas from D and other languages so that certainly helped close the gap between D and C++ but D is still significantly nicer to work in than C++ (which is what I spend all day at work writing). You can use RAII all you want in D. The D standard library uses it for things like Files, containers, and smart pointers. I feel like Garbage Collectors have become something of a bogeyman for native languages. There is a lot of value a garbage collector can add. In D it's rarely hard to switch to managing your own memory if your profiler shows the garbage collector taking up more time than you'd like. For most programs avoiding the garbage collector is a premature optimization though. For IDEs you have: - Mono-D http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/ - VisualD (should be included with Windows DMD in the next release) https://g