On Sunday, January 26, 2014 20:29:28 Oten wrote: > Which tools do you miss in the D language? it can be from any > language not from C or C++ only but from any language that you > have used and liked (might not liked but increased productivity > anyway) A very common argument from peoples which do choose > other language than D is lack of your tools for D, even if they > want to get D they say can't switch. The most common tools which > they miss is debuggers/static analyzer/lint and so on. I think > that by sharing this list with community instead of just say it > like a criticizes is good because next time that some people say > that such a x tools isn't available you can say "No, there's a D > version for that". Also, totally new ideas are very welcome. If > you have had a idea that for any reason you wouldn't implement > yourself, tell us too. > (sorry for english, not my native language)
About the only thing that I can think of would be a proper debugger that actually understood D. gdb kind of works but not all that well. Of course, gdb doesn't even properly understand C++, so in that respect, I'm not sure that we're all that much worse of than C++ is. But a proper debugger that actually understood D arrays and strings and whatnot would be fantastic. Most of the other features that folks like to list (like autocompletion, jump to definition, or many IDE-specific tools) are exactly the sort of thing that I don't even have or bother with in C++ (often because vim can't do them well), so while they might be nice to have, I generally don't even think about them much. - Jonathan M Davis
