Right now, what's the most important for the success and adoption of D?

[Sean Kelly]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> I wanted to probe the D community of the following issue:
>>
>> Right now, what would the most important thing for the success and 
>> adoption of D? In other words, if one had to use D to develop a medium 
>> or large scale software, what would be the most important things to 
>> have, that we currently don't have (or aren't good enough)?
> 
> 1. A solid debugging environment

Let me extend this by adding:

1b. A tools developer with a support contract.

The build team for a large project doesn't want to be dead in the water 
if something doesn't work.  Unix development teams may be fairly used to 
the open source model, but Windows development teams are not.  Having 
the phone number of a support rep tends to make the Windows people feel 
much more secure.  In fact, I feel fairly confident that the chances of 
using D for Windows development at my current company would be basically 
nil for this reason alone.  With a sufficiently stable compiler and 
solid debugging features I think it would be possible for Unix projects 
however.


Sean