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Welcome to Descent
Descent is an Eclipse plugin that provides an IDE for writing, launching and debugging code in the D programming language from Digital Mars.
Documentation
Some old documentation is here: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DescentUI
Also check out The Forum.
Features
- Syntax highlighting.
- Awesome, flexible formatter.
- Folding.
- Automatic closing of strings, brackets, chars and comments.
- Code templates.
- Syntax errors are shown with a reg squiggle.
- Project Explorer.
- Outline view.
- Automatic generation of documentation comments (Params, Author, etc.).
- Spell checking.
- TODO tasks.
- Ddoc view.
- Highlighting of all occurrences of the current token under the cursor.
- trace.log viewer
- Runs and debugs programs within the IDE.
Future Directions
Now we are focusing in:
- Making the build system.
- Porting DMD's semantic analysis.
Contact Us
Here's where to reach those responsible for Descent:
- The Forum
- Via #d.descent at irc.freenode.org
- Create tickets for suggestions, improvements, and things that don't work correctly