2. The C preprocessor is no excuse to why we shouldn't have good refactoring tools for D.
I think the author of the original message including many who agree with him forget a simple fact - coding an IDE that can handle D's generative abilities is not a trivial thing to do.
I can whine about many things that I miss, but I can't expect from an open-source community to spend thousands of working hours coding extra-dificult features...
