On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:58:55 +0300, William Newbery <[email protected]>
wrote:
I use c++ extensivly, however I find several shortcoming of c++ highly
annoying, and it looks as if D addresses most of these problems for me,
however I'm not certain on certain points as Ive either been unable to
find any good info, or the info I found was very out of date.
1)IDE support: Is there a Visual Studio 2008 plugin avaible for
programming D? If not are there any windows IDE's for D that are at
least comparable to VS (ie built in debugger, good autocompletion, can
go straight to where something was defined/declared, etc)?
Descent is pretty good, it has integrated debugger, too.
Some of its features are shown here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/asterite
2)Garbage Collection: Can the garbage collector just be removed from
projects or be completly replaced by a diffrent form of garbage
collection, eg refrence counting?
3)Compatibility between D compilers: Does the D standard enforce binary
compatibility between compilers. Eg if I compiled a libary with the DMD
compiler and gave the static lib to someone that uses some other D
compiler, will they be able to use my lib without any problems?
4)Support for directX: Specificaly I need to be able to use d3d9,
d3dx9, d3d10, d3dx10 and xAudio2.
5)Support for classes in dynamic libaries, and the ability to dynamicaly
load these libaries.
