On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 10:21:22 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
To conclude: if D wants to cater to that crowd, it will have to
bite the bullet and make the Windows experience even smoother
than it is now. You won't overcome Windows dev's Stockholm
syndrome otherwise and Windows devs, should also peg down a
little bit and learn that MS's way of doing things is far from
being ideal (bloat, loss of control, changing specs every 3
years, programmed obsolescence (Active-X anyone?)).
Or better yet, don't bother with a dying platform full of whiny
devs who are helpless without an IDE. One of D's strengths is
that it isn't architected for IDE-driven development and the
oft-resulting verbosity, that's a market D should probably just
leave alone. Instead, focus on the current major platform which
lets you use almost any toolchain you want:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Of course, it is admirable what Rainer and others do to maintain
VisualD and other D tools for the Windows platform. I just don't
see it mattering much in the next decade.
