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

[Jascha Wetzel]

Matti Niemenmaa wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> 1. A solid debugging environment
>> can you elaborate on what ddbg should improve on it's share of the
>> debugging environment?
> 
> Platform support is one thing. Of course, one can use gdb, but I'd prefer
> something with better D support---and there's the fact that I'm used to ddbg
> from the Windows side.
> 
> I realize what I'm saying and that you're probably aware of this already, but
> from my point of view it's the only important thing where ddbg can improve.

There is zerobugs, which is supposed to support D properly on the posix 
platforms. I don't know how well it works, because i haven't tried it. 
But since you only mentioned GDB, i suppose you haven't tried it, either.

A debugger is a pretty system dependent tool. Porting it to posix is a 
major change. AFAIK writing code that's that close to the OS is also 
concerned with a lot of different versions and flavors of unix.
I'd consider doing that if there were absolutely no other acceptable way 
to debug D on posix, but unless zerobugs is discontinued, i don't see 
the need.