Reddit: why aren't people using D?

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Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:

> Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
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>> 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.
> 
> While working on QtD I have also come up with the conclusion that D needs
> proper properties. Qt itself greatly relies on properties and it makes a
> lot of cool things possible. Of course C++ doesn't support them, it is
> done via Qt metatype system. When D goes popular, IDEs will severely lack
> this functionality from the language.

There have been a lot of discussions on this topic in the past but I can't 
recall any conclusions. Perhaps some brave soul would dare to write a DIP on  
properties?