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[Peter Alexander]

On 12/12/11 6:09 PM, Hans Uhlig wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 1:26 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> On 11/12/11 1:52 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2011 4:46 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>>> I think either would be fine, but having to use the command line for
>>>> anything on
>>>> Windows is a no-no these days in terms of usability.
>>>
>>> Since dmd is a command line tool anyway, why is it a usability problem
>>> to use dman?
>>
>> Why do you think so many people ask for IDEs? :-)
>>
>> Windows people are used to Visual Studio doing everything for them. Hit
>> F7 to compile, F5 to run under debugger, click on lines to set
>> breakpoints.
>>
>
> That's because cmd sucks. MS Powershell isn't much better. I have to use
> mintty just to be able to have a sane environment. Linux is a very shell
> oriented OS still even with Kde and Gnome. Microsoft did everything in
> its power to kill off the shell for "useability" reasons.

I agree that cmd sucks.

I disagree that people use Visual Studio because cmd sucks.

At home I'm a Mac user, but at work I use Visual Studio. I've used 
Eclipse, XCode, code blocks, vim+makefiles, and I can easily say that 
Visual Studio is far and away the best development environment in 
existence. Nothing even comes close to it.