D worth using for large project?

[Bill Baxter]

NCODA wrote:
> I'm a C++ programmer. For a large project, I have been looking at starting to use D, but I've found quite alot of problems getting even a sample compiled. According to the documentation it looks like an AWESOME language, but is D commercial ready? My concerns are ...
> 
>  - no out-of-the-box IDE support in windows
>  - this website, the forum search doesn't work! making it very hard to find information
>  - the compiler switches don't work according to samples (eg. -c doesn't have any affect, and i need it for use the CodeBlocks IDE)
>  - compiler gets confused when passing multiple filenames on the command line, and ends up trying to compile a seperate executable for each file
>  - small commercial take-up
> 
> I know I'm probably doing some things wrong, but I cannot find any help. Does anyone recommend using D or not, and is the D community strong enough to fight through its short-commings?

You say you can't get any help, but this is the first post I've seen 
from you on either this newsgroup or digitalmars.D.learn.  The NG search 
does suck and I don't think you'll get much flack from folks here over 
asking FAQs.

Post specific questions like "why doesn't this work" and I'm sure you'll 
get quick answers from the folks here.  These newsgroups are very 
responsive.

--bb