soywiz:
D didn't had a good IDE allowing refactoring by that moment
That's mostly a tools/ecosystem problem, but perhaps the language design could help a little to perform the refactoring. How can a language help refactoring?
Compilation times were huge. I was using lot of compile-time code generation and at least at that time, that code was interpreted or not enought fast for me.
This is a known problem, it can be solved, people are working on it, and I think eventually it will be partially solved.
Also I needed a needed to chaneg the emulator to perform dynamic recompilation instead of just interpreting. With C# I could do portable dynarec very easily. In the case of D I would have to creaet a emitter per supported platform (mostly x86, x64 and ARM).
I think this is mostly a library problem. Bye, bearophile
