A great IDE is essential for D to really succeed.
Visual D is a solid start but it isn't really usable for a large
project yet.
- The debugging experience is funky, it can't seem to see many
variables
- hovering over variables generally doesn't show anything useful
- hitting . doesn't pop up possible members
- very limited syntax highlighting
D might have simplified C++ syntax, but it is still quite
complex, not having an IDE that supports the type of things that
Visual Studio supports is just painful-- I doubt D has any chance
in the game industry without much better VS support.
Aside from C++ I also use Lua quite often and even in a light
weight scripting language like Lua I much prefer an
IDE(Decoda--Manu it works with embedded scripts btw).
