You gain a lot of power by using D1 instead of Java/C++: Usable Templates with static if, slices, a GC, unsigned types, ..
Yep, working with C++ again feels like being thrown back to the stone age.
It's also the (at least felt) immaturity of DMD for D2, I guess. You read about problems in the NG all the time.
Yet it's the only real option to go on Windoze :(
A port of Tango for D2 would be really helpful, because Phobos2, like Phobos1, is no fun to use..
Won't happen anyway.
freedom), usable (as in relatively bugfree) up-to-date D2 compiler that supports a plethora of platforms \o/
Well compiling it for Windoze is still a PITA.
Also people seem to work on LDC2 again.
Yeah, they are at 2.050 but I don't know if it works yet. http://bitbucket.org/prokhin_alexey/ldc2
