On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:21:08AM +0200, Ramon wrote: [...] > D's bias toward Windows doesn't help either. [...]
I'm confused by this statement. I don't do development on Windows either, but my impression during the time I've been around here is that Windows support is actually lagging behind Linux. It was only very recently that we got 64-bit support on Windows. And optlink often comes up as a nagging point (along with COFF vs. whatever it is the other format is called), but Linux users use the system linker and never have this problem. So, all things considered, it would appear to me rather that D is more biased towards Linux. :) As for the whole "need better IDE support" issue, I think it's the same with every other issue that has come up in the D community: it takes *somebody* to champion the cause and do whatever it takes to make it happen. Like Andrei with Phobos, Iain with GDC, Don with CTFE, etc.. Being an opensource community, the dynamics here are rather different from, say, a corporate-backed language: what somebody cares about enough to do something about it, is what gets implemented and supported. Dictating that people work on feature X, or officially declaring support for feature X, generally doesn't have very much actual effect. The core devs have enough on their hands already (too much, in fact -- Phobos pulls, for example, need much more manpower to review so that turnaround time isn't as slow as it currently is). What is needed is *somebody* from the community with the urge to do something about it, to go ahead and do it, and then submit the pull requests, etc., to get it integrated. I'm sure Walter & co will be more than happy to merge such requests. T -- Recently, our IT department hired a bug-fix engineer. He used to work for Volkswagen.
