Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
I also agree with Walter about the lack of an IDE for D as powerful as
Visual Studio, I myself use poseidon only because of its overly simple
build process and simple project manager and debug in windbg. But that
isn't the case with most programmers who like or dislike a language
based on the IDE they use.
I do hear over and over that without a VS workalike IDE, programmers
just aren't interested in a language. They argue, probably with a lot of
merit, that the productivity increase of using VS is more than the
productivity increase of using a better language.
It's clear Microsoft has hit a home run with VS.
I was talking to some serious hardcore C++ programmers yesterday. One
was a die-hard emacs user, and he admitted that he'd switched to VS and
wasn't looking back, it was that much better. I asked him what the
killer feature of VS was, and he said it was being able to instantly see
every use and definition of a symbol.
(With emacs he'd have to run ctags first, and even then ctags was
inaccurate and clumsy.)
