[Feedback] Main difficulties encountered with D

[Xavier Bigand]

Hi,

It's been a few months since I work on "DQuick" at a rate of a few 
minutes or hours from time to time. After working professionally with 
Java during a year I was really surprise to see D capable to compete a 
such language on productivity and providing much more features than C++.

But because D and his compiler aren't as mature as c++ compilers, it can 
be really hard to debug our code, mainly when searching memory issues, 
because generated code by DMD isn't compatible with existing tools 
(Valgrind, DrMemory).

I generally use those tools when it's hard to put markers manually in 
code or when I don't have a call stack on a crash.

I search the cause of a crash that I have under Windows, but I don't 
have nothing more than this message box :

Unhandled exception at 0x0075fe53 in Image.exe: 0xC0000005: Access 
violation reading location 0x00000000.

I don't have the stack.


So, it's certainly one of the worst points dmd isn't compatible with C++ 
debugging tools.