Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Ary Borenszweig]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Unfortunately the designers of D doesn't care at all about IDE support 
>> for their language, even though in any "why don't you use D" 
>> discussion it is mentioned.
> 
> The problem is not not caring. For one, I'd love a D IDE as much as the 
> next guy, but I don't have the resources to put into writing one. IDEs 
> come with language acceptance and are seldom written by the creator of 
> the language.

I'm not talking about writing an IDE. I'm talking about when thinking of 
a feature, think how this could be supported in an IDE.

For instance properties seem to be a fundamental thing in Delphi and C#. 
When you are debugging and you watch some varaible, the debugger 
automatically allows you to expand a node and see the varaible's 
properties. You can't do that with D because any function that has zero 
parameters could be a property, even though some functions aren't 
properties.

> By the way, we must be doing something right. As of ten days ago there 
> were 30,800 page views for The Case for D, and I just noticed that in 
> the past week the presale rate for The D Programming Language has doubled.

Great! :-)