What you use D for?

[Bill Baxter]

Arne wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a developer specialised in making eclipse based IDEs. We consider to create a comercial quality IDE for D but are unsure if it will pay of (and so we are able to throw full time developers at the project).

Since no one has mentioned it yet, there is an eclipse-based IDE for D 
already.  There are two of them, actually.  Descent and Mrnmnhrmn.  Just 
thought I'd mention it, in case you weren't aware of your competition.

I haven't really used either.  I toyed around with Descent for about an 
hour recently, but generally I use emacs for everything.  However the 
Descent guys do seem to be doing a pretty good job with their plugin.

> We need to know if there will be enough customers. Do you use D for commercial projects? Does your company make money with it? And is able to pay for an IDE (if it fullfill your needs and speed up your development, of course)?

My biggest woes with D development usually come from the debugger 
(Jascha Wetzel's ddbg) not giving useful stack traces rather than from 
anything an IDE would help with.

--bb