I'm looking for comments on assembling a toolchain using a D IDE

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I'm planning to ditch C++ and come to D. The problem is that I 
love IDEs for the types of big projects I do, and the C++ IDEs 
I've used are reasonably good.

The D IDEs that stand out based on their descriptions are Dlang, 
Coedit with metad, Zeus, Code::blocks, and QtCreator with D 
extensions.

Visual Studio with D add-ins also seems to be popular, but I'm 
super down on Visual Studio at the moment because their compiler 
options are error-prone and it's still Microsoft, so I'd like to 
explore something else. I've also given up on getting things done 
with Eclipse. It looks nice, but the times I've tried it, I had 
to ditch it for Netbeans or Visual Studio.

There aren't any real reviews on how these things perform for big 
projects in a professional environment. I'm planning on starting 
my search with QtCreator. However, there are many tools that go 
into debugging, profiling analysis, git integration, etc. that 
seem to require a lot of configuration, and things that just 
don't play well together. Since there are many options, it would 
be great if people could post their recommendations after having 
tried some of these tools. It would save me a lot of time to 
clone a few setups rather than discover the pieces that work well 
together on my own.

I'm looking for things like testimony that your setup worked well 
on a big project, and links to sites where I should install 
stuff, and some idea what value each component brings to setup, 
even if it's not that extensively used. I really can't find this 
sort of detail anywhere, which is why I'm asking here.

In particular, Zeus looks interesting, but from the Zeus website, 
it also looks like a maze of add-on scripts, with no guarantee 
that they work that well. Is anyone using this?