On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
"Wikipedia tells us that there were a lot of other attempts besides D to kill C++ - for example Vala, Cyclone, Limbo, BitC. How many of you have even heard of these languages?"
I've heard of every one except Limbo.
Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impressed by D's 1980s-style bare basic command line tools is not surprising.
I program in D in Visual Studio and it's fine, I like the experience more than doing C++ in VS. Because the support for C++ in VS was always a meh, not comparable to C#, for example. Only if you use a special third-party tool like Visual Assist X you get some real benefits and only then you start to miss them in VisualD.
I think an IDE, one could call it "DCode" (great name, isn't it?), which integrates all the available tools and provides a modern graphical interface to them would do wonders.
Have you actually tried Mono-D and VisualD?
