What you use D for?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Arne" <user at domain.invalid> wrote in message 
news:g0gm1q$2ar1$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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).
>
> 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)?
>
> It would be helpfull if you can describe in a few words what you do with D 
> and perhaps could provide a link.
>

I use D whenever my hands aren't tied in regard to which language to use.

Regarding tools: right now, I'm using the open-source stuff (CodeBlocks 
currently), but out of all such things I've tried, I've have had a number of 
complaints with each. Even with CodeBlocks, I have a good handful of 
bug/feature tickets in their system, and being open-source, I'm not 
expecting those tickets to get resolved soon. And, unfortunately, I just 
don't have time to help out on them myself. I've been meaning to give 
another try to things like Zeus and Programmer's Notepad, but haven't gotten 
around to it.

So basically, I'd be willing to pay a price comparable to Visual Studio 
Professional for an IDE that's comparable to Visual Studio Professional (I'm 
specifically thinking about Visual Studio's support for C#: it's been years 
since I've used it for C/C++). Although, preferably with better performance 
in terms of speed and memory usage - I really like responsiveness of the 
lighter-weight solutions like CodeBlocks.

Oh, and there better not be any invisible text (or other UI elements) when I 
run it on a system with a light-on-dark system color scheme, because that's 
just incredibly unprofessional and places it squarely in the category of 
"things I'd only use for free". You'd be surprised how many people, both 
commercial and open-source, don't follow the guideline of "Foreground and 
background colors: Never change one away from system-default without also 
changing the other." Hell, I've even seen built-in Windows screens that 
ignored that, and you think that *MS'S WINDOWS TEAM*, of all people, would 
be well aware that Windows *SUPPORTS CUSTOM COLOR SCHEMES*, and has 
supported them since at least as far back as Win3.1. Umm, sorry for the rant 
;)

But back to the original issue, anything based on Eclipse would definitely 
NOT fit the bill for me. I've tried to use Eclipse a few times before and 
find it hopelessly bloated (even a little moreso than Visual Studio), and 
whatever the heck it uses instead of the nice clean "project file and 
workspace file" mechanism of IDE's like Visual Studio and CodeBlocks just 
doesn't seem to make any sense at all.