Is D appropriate for creating a stable production app?

[Bill Baxter]

I think you'll find the language itself is a joy to work with compared 
to C++.  Where it suffers is

1) IDE/Debugger support - not many options there yet.  writefln is 
pretty much your best bet.

2) Documentation - there's a spec, which is what I refer to most, but it 
often leaves details out, and is not really organized in such a way that 
things are easy to find.  Good thing is the newsgroup is pretty 
responsive and helpful anytime there's something you can't find in the docs.

3) Libraries.  There's a surprising amount of D code out there, but 
still it pales in comparison to an established decades-old language like C.

If you can live with the above 3, then D should be able to get the job 
done, and will be much more fun than using C++. :-)

One thing I'm curious about -- has anyone out there used D extensively 
for a 24/7 server type app?  I mean the kind of thing that would expose 
slow leaks in the GC and other robustness problems like that.

--bb

mmcdermo wrote:
> Repost from "The old D" newsgroup
> Hello,
> I am curious as to what all of you, being involved with the development of
> some of the most fundamental parts of D's progression, have to say about
> whether D should be used in a certain situation.