On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 17:32:53 UTC, Adam wrote:
Visual D, a mighty attempt to bring some sanity to D in
windows, is simply to unpolished to work well. It brings the
looks of Visual Studio but not the feel of how VS works so well
with .NET. I spend over an order of magnitude more time trying
to fix D bugs than I do in .NET. Unfortunately this makes it
infeasible to continue to use D.
For example, I build a ~10k line app in under a week in .NET,
with gui and everything. In D I'm still working on getting the
libraries build. Even with all the power D has, what good is it
if you can't get off the starting line. Some will write this
off making some assumption, So be it.
.NET is a bliss to work in, D is drudgery. If only MS would
build a D compiler similar to what it has done with C#. No
offense to all those who have worked hard on D, someone has to
do it. For me, .NET is like heaven, D is like hell: It's almost
exclusively due to the error messages and IDE.
I know what he means about visual D, it can be quite difficult to
work with and doesn't seem very polished. That being said xamarin
studio with the mono-D plugin is just opposite, or at least in my
own experience and it supports both windows and *NIX.
