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Hi Akira13641

I am new to D, and new to PC programming in general, though I have many years under my belt in an industrial environment using various PLCs. Now that I have retired, I have time to indulge myself in learning new stuff that I've always been interested in but never had the time or energy to persue before (including Linux).

I would like to thank you for picking up this project and maybe improving it over time. It seems to be the only active D IDE around now.

I had a couple of aborted attempts to install Dlang IDE had to give up in the end, and I couldn't even find the NetBeans plug-in. After a bit of a fight, I did manage to get the Eclipse DDT Plug-In working, and though it's not 100% and seems to be no longer in development, it is useable - at least for me with my current learning path. Once I get a bit more familiar with it I shall have a go at installing dexed.

As someone new to programming for PC, and by no means an expert in Linux, I think that the lack of a good IDE for D is probably one of the biggest things preventing take-up of the language. I have no desire to fight against a command-line compiler when all I want to do is learn the language. An IDE makes things clearer than a list of error messages, and so much easier and quicker to edit (at least, it does for us beginners).

Thank you once again, and good luck with the project.

Regards,
SadSack963

I noticed the dexed project and found it interesting. But just noticed it's been deleted alone with the original author's github account. I'm curious about what happened, anything to say? :)

Attempt to build on Windows 10 throws:

dexed\dastworx\src\common.d(6): Error: module lexer is in file 'dparse\lexer.d' which cannot be read

Can you provide instructions on how to build the project?

Hi,
I was over the original page and following the install instructions and got stuck.
I found your repo and cloned it... and can't figure out how to compile it for Windows.

Is there a full description on how to build it?
This old one is what I found:
https://basile.b.gitlab.io/dexed/build.html

Thanks so much!

I use dcd for code completion and i have an annoying issue with it. For some reason dcd server fails to process some of my source files, reports a segmentation fault and exits. From that point DexEd can't use the server, but dcd-server process still exists, but now it's a zombie process. I don't know pascal (which i wish i knew), but it seems like the IDE doesn't monitor dcd server state at all. I have to manually restart it every time it fails. It would be great if such monitoring existed and IDE was able to restart dcd server if something happens.

The problem is most likely that i use some libraries that are not in path for dcd to look for, so he tries to load ddoc and completion and then fails.