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

BCS BCS at pathlink.com
Fri Sep 28 13:40:13 PDT 2007


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)?
> (I'm not talking only about language features, in case you didn't get that)
> 
> I ask this on the onset of seeing several people commenting on how they 
> can't wait until we have AST macros, or how the feature X would be 
> awesome to have, while me, now that I actually started to some coding in 
> D (even if in a very small project), would actually rate those a much 
> lower priority versus other things I'd like to have in the D ecosphere. 
>  I'll do some more comments on this but first I'd like to hear about 
> other people's opinions.
> 

without reading others comments:

-IDE
-Debugger (at least as good as c++ on Linux, ideally as good as VS)
-Phobos vs. Tango resolution



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