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Christof Schardt Posted - Apr 18 2014 : 12:28:45 PM
In case you didn't know: The D-Language [1] is getting momentum. Facebook for example has started to adopt D [2] and open sourced some first projects (e.g. a C++Preprocessor [3])

D is the solution for people like me, who are suffering from the huge unproductivity of C++ but have to use it because of its performance.

The only reason why I can't yet switch from C++ to D is VA.
VA is so insanely useful and clever, that it compensates for most of the disadvantages of C++.

D's Syntax is almost like C/C++, there are open source parsers, and a first package for Visual Studio is already available [4].
That's why I assume, that extending VA to the D-language would be possible with reasonable efforts.

It would be the incarnation of a programmers heaven!!

Thanks for considering!

Christof

[1] http://www.dlang.org
[2] http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/facebook-adopts-d-language/240162694
[3] https://github.com/facebook/warp
[4] http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald
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feline Posted - Apr 18 2014 : 1:57:10 PM
Unfortunately we don't have any current plans to add support for any new programming languages, we are instead focussing our efforts on C++ and C#, which are both natively supported by Visual Studio.

If the D syntax is sufficiently close to C++ you could try telling VA to treat it like C++, as explained here:

http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W328

but you are likely to encounter some odd effects, due to any differences in syntax that do exist.

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