Editing D (programming language) (section)

==Development tools==
Editors and [[integrated development environment]]s (IDEs) supporting [[syntax highlighting]] and partial [[Intelligent code completion|code completion]] for the language include [[SlickEdit]], [[Emacs]], [[Vim (text editor)|vim]], [[SciTE]], [[Smultron]], Zeus,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/ZeusForWindows |title=Wiki4D: EditorSupport/ZeusForWindows |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref> and [[Geany]] among others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wiki4D: Editor Support |url=http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport |access-date=3 July 2010}}</ref>

* Dexed (formerly Coedit),<ref>{{cite web |title=Basile.B / dexed |url=https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed |website=GitLab |access-date=2020-04-29 |language=en}}</ref> a D focused graphical IDE written in [[Object Pascal]]
* Mono-D<ref>{{cite web |title=Mono-D - D Wiki |url=https://wiki.dlang.org/Mono-D |website=wiki.dlang.org |access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> is a feature rich cross-platform D focused graphical IDE based on [[MonoDevelop]] / Xamarin Studio, mainly written in C Sharp.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mono-d.sourceforge.net/ |title=Mono-D – D Support for MonoDevelop |access-date=11 August 2015 |archive-date=1 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201034822/http://mono-d.sourceforge.net/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] plug-ins for D include DDT<ref>{{cite web |url=https://code.google.com/p/ddt/ |title=Google Project Hosting |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref> and Descent (dead project).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dsource.org/projects/descent |title=descent |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref>
* Visual Studio integration is provided by VisualD.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/StartPage.html |title=Visual D - D Programming Language|access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Schuetze |first1=Rainer |title=rainers/visuald: Visual D - Visual Studio extension for the D programming language |url=https://github.com/rainers/visuald |website=github.com |access-date=2020-04-30 |date=17 April 2020}}</ref>
* [[Visual Studio Code]] integration with extensions as Dlang-Vscode<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/dlang-vscode/dlang-vscode |title=dlang-vscode |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref> or Code-D.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d |title=code-d |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>
* A bundle is available for [[TextMate]], and the [[Code::Blocks]] IDE includes partial support for the language. However, standard IDE features such as [[code completion]] or [[refactoring]] are not yet available, though they do work partially in Code::Blocks (due to D's similarity to C).
* The [[Xcode 3]] plugin "D for Xcode" enables D-based projects and development.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://michelf.com/projects/d-for-xcode/ |title=Michel Fortin – D for Xcode |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref>
* [[KDevelop]] (as well as its text editor backend, Kate) autocompletion plugin is available.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Dav1dde/lumen |title=Dav1dde/lumen |work=GitHub |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref>
* Dlang IDE is a cross-platform IDE written in D using DlangUI library.<ref>{{cite web |last=Michael |first=Parker |date=7 October 2016 |title=Project Highlight: DlangUI |url=https://dlang.org/blog/2016/10/07/project-highlight-dlangui |access-date=12 September 2024 |website=The D Blog}}</ref>

[[Open-source software|Open source]] D IDEs for [[Windows]] exist, some written in D, such as Poseidon,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dsource.org/projects/poseidon |title=poseidon |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref> D-IDE,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://d-ide.sourceforge.net/ |title=Mono-D – D Support for MonoDevelop |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref> and Entice Designer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dprogramming.com/entice.php |title=Entice Designer – Dprogramming.com – The D programming language |access-date=11 August 2015}}</ref>

D applications can be debugged using any C/C++ debugger, like [[GNU Debugger]] (GDB) or [[WinDbg]], although support for various D-specific language features is extremely limited. On Windows, D programs can be debugged using [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224161328/http://ddbg.mainia.de/ Ddbg], or Microsoft debugging tools (WinDBG and Visual Studio), after having converted the debug information using [http://dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb cv2pdb]. The [http://zerobugs.codeplex.com/ ZeroBUGS] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223130659/http://zerobugs.codeplex.com/ |date=23 December 2017}} debugger for Linux has experimental support for the D language. Ddbg can be used with various IDEs or from the command line; ZeroBUGS has its own [[graphical user interface]] (GUI).

''DustMite'' is a tool for minimizing D source code, useful when finding compiler or tests issues.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki |title=What is DustMite? |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2020-04-29 |language=en}}</ref>

''dub'' is a popular package and build manager for D applications and libraries, and is often integrated into IDE support.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/dlang/dub |title=dlang/dub: Package and build management system for D |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2020-04-29 |language=en}}</ref>