On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 18:52:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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.
What makes you think that windows is a "dying platform"!? There
is no evidence to suggest this.
