Tools for D Development

Abstract:  I have developed several tools that I feel are useful for D programmers and would like to bring attention to how they can be used to solve problems facing D programmers or to speed up a typical edit-compile-run cycle.

I intend to cover the following tools:

• libdparse - A library with an up-to-date implementation of a lexer, parser, and AST in D for D. I will talk about its development, and how it has led to an increase in the quality of the official language specification.
• generated - A fuzz testing tool built on the grammar developed during the construction and debugging of libdparse. Generated has helped to reveal inconsistencies in libdparse, DMD, and the official language specification.
• D-Scanner - A D code analysis tool. It includes capabilities for code search and various forms of static analysis.
• Sonar D Plugin - A plugin for the SonarQube static analysis system that is able to track the results of D-Scanner reports. This allows organizations to track code quality metrics for D in the same way that they would for Java, PHP, and other languages.
• Harbored - A documentation generation tool that builds on top of libdparse. A fork of this tool now powers ddocs.org, a site that aggregates documentation for artifacts published via Dub.
• DCD is an auto-completion tool for D that can be easily reused by text editors and IDEs. Plugins for DCD exist for Emacs, Vim, Textadept, Zeus, Sublime Text 3, Kate/KDevelop, DlangeIDE, IntelliJ, Coedit, and possibly others.

Speaker Bio: Brian Schott has been using D since 2007. He wrote and maintains several tools for the development of D software. Brian currently works at Economic Modeling Specialists International where he helps maintain economic data processing and forecasting software written in D.