IntelliJ V beta.4

beta.4 — the first plugin version released under VOSCA. It took a long time to create an association and projects for it, so it is a small release, but we still have something to show.

The new version of the plugin can be downloaded via the IDE, see instruction for more details. Or you can download the plugin directly from GitHub and install manually.

Debugger improvements

Debugging is undoubtedly one of the great features of the plugin, as it provides a convenient way to find bugs in programs. One of the very handy features of debuggers is to execute small expressions. However, the LLDB and GDB debuggers do not support this feature for V, so we decided to add this feature directly in the plugin.

It is currently experimental and supports a small subset of expressions, but it will evolve and support more V expressions in the future.

We also improved the display of variable values in the debugger window, now they are highlighted as in the editor:

We also improved the display of strings containing line breaks or tabs, now, when opening the entire value, the text is displayed with line breaks and tabs:

We also fixed a few bugs and made small improvements:

• In debugger, now NULL displays as nil
• Function types are now displayed in a more readable way in the debugger
• Enums with alignment now also displayed in the debugger in the correct way
• On Windows primitive types also displayed as u32/i32/etc. instead of int or unsigned in debugger
• Support for maps and arrays with pointer type values in the debugger
• Do not step into some generated functions when debug
• Add name and address to pretty printer for interfaces in the debugger

Rename refactoring improvements

In V, comments for functions/structures/etc. should contain as the first word the name of the symbol for which they describe the documentation.

In this update, we have added a link so that when you rename a symbol, the name in the comment will also be renamed.

We also highlight such names in a different color to make it easier to distinguish them from a regular text.

ORM Updates

The ORM recently received an update that changed the behavior in some cases. For example, now, sql db { ... } expressions always return Result. We have updated the plugin’s handling of such expressions to work correctly with the new behavior.

For example, we will warn that the following expression is now erroneous:

Other changes

The it variable in array initialization has been renamed to index, the plugin will warn you about it and give you a quick fix:

We’ve extended name checking, so it will also check local variable names (thanks to @saturn4er):

We also fixed a few bugs and made some small improvements. You can check them out in changelog.