On 1/27/2014 3:23 AM, Manu wrote:
I made an interesting observation recently... D has kind of ruined my career ;) Before I started using D a lot, I found C/C++ quite okay as a language. But after extended time using D, I find C/C++ borderline intolerable, and don't enjoy writing it at all. But the tooling built around C/C++ is pretty good, and as such, I find the tooling while working in D borderline intolerable. So, before, I generally enjoyed my work, and felt generally productive. Now days, whenever I do any work in either language, I find one aspect or the other borderline intolerable, and I have trouble enjoying spending my time programming for long periods before getting frustrated and going and doing something else... I'm quite serious, this is a true realisation of an unconscious behaviour. D ruined C/C++ for me, but my expectations of C/C++'s tooling still remains a barrier to my enjoyment of writing D code all time time... I'm fucked!
I had a similar experience a little over ten years back with C/C++ vs Java. I'd been a [relatively] happy C/C++ user, until I tried Java which destroyed my ability to tolerate C++'s import system and OOP. But Java (this was back around v1.2) came with plenty of its own pains, so I became extremely frustrated with programming in general.
Luckily D fixed all that for me (and to a lesser extent, C#, but that was before I got fed up with C#'s near-total lack of metaprogramming and some other things.) The debugger issues don't really bug [heh] me much because I've been in many situations in the past where I didn't have a debugger available, that I've become very comfortable with printf-style debugging, and usually even prefer it. (Not that a good debugger isn't a fantastic thing to have. It certainly is.)
