StackOverflow: Applications development with D language

[Ary Borenszweig]

Ary Borenszweig escribió:
> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo escribió:
>> There's an unanswered question on Stack Overflow about D. Anyone cares 
>> to write a response?
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289087/applications-development-with-d-language 
>>
>>
>> """
>> For those who had developed applications with D,
>>
>>    * which libraries did you use to build your application?
>>    * those libraries were good documented?
>>    * did you use Tango?
>>    * do you feel that D is ready to build big applications?
>>    * which IDE did you use? Descent maybe?
>>
>>      Thanks in advance. Jonathan.
>> """
>>
>> BTW, this isn't old, only 22 hours old. (I checked this time)
> 
> That's a friend of mine, he studies with me and we worked together some 
> months.
> 
> I mentioned D to him a couple of times, but it surprised me to find his 
> question in stackoverflow, so I asked him what he was trying to do. He 
> said:
> 
> "It's an application that will do a lot of numeric calculations. C++ 
> gives me headaches because of all of it's errors and because there are 
> so many exceptions in the syntax rules for someone that programs in 
> Java. D would be a good substitute assuming it has a similar 
> performance, but if I use D I think I won't find libraries, or find out 
> that the community has little support. This is reasonable, it's a 
> smaller community than what it is in Java or C++."
> 
> So I asked him which libraries he needs, and he replied:
> 
> "I would need to read different sound file formats, at least the 
> well-known ones. I didn't search it, but I think it would be hard to 
> find that. Also for image treatment, is there such thing in D? And 
> multithreading support?
> 
> Can you interface with C code? It would be cool if you could interface 
> with C++ code, I think every person that currently develops in C++ could 
> seriosly think about switching to D"
> 
> I know some of the answers, but I'm sure the community can answer in a 
> better way all of these questions.
> 
> (Also note that he knows C++, but he programs in Java, and he's trying 
> to find something close to the machine, fast, that has OOP support and 
> all the goodies of a higher level language... that's the same thing I'm 
> looking for... so targeting D just towards any kind of programmer 
> instead of just C++ programmers is good)

In case I wasn't clear enough, this chat I had with him was after he 
posted the question in stackoverflow, so he's still waiting an answer 
from me. :-)