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by EvenThisAcronym 2431 days ago
Visual D with Visual Studio is the gold standard, with full debugging, autocomplete, and static analysis support.

Code-D with VS Code is also great, and it has fairly recently gotten funding from the D Language Foundation for further development.

There's also DCD, D-Scanner and dfmt which can be used with a lot of different editors.

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Also, what's the difference between code-d [1] and dlang-vscode [2]

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak...

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dlang-vs...

Edit: It seems that dlang-vscode recommends to instead use vscode-dls [3] or code-dlang.

[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LaurentT...

Do either Visual D or Code-D work with Linux or WSL? It would be really nice to have the GUI for debugging linux code. Some libraries are just much easier to get set up in linux.
Visual D is a plugin for Visual Studio, so no. Code-D is a plugin for VS Code, so it works anywhere VS Code does.