Who here actually uses D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-01-02 05:13, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Robert Clipsham"<robert at octarineparrot.com>  wrote in message
> news:ifo9jd$1kt9$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Having seen a post by Peter Alexander (in Re: D for game development),
>> mentioning some of the issues he's hit I thought I'd post this. I've been
>> in his shoes (every other time I use D it seems), and feel I should ask -
>> who here uses D, and to what extent?
>>
>> I'm mostly interested in those of you with 1000 Line plus projects in D,
>> as that's when I've found I start hitting issues.
>>
>> Just to clarify, for those D purists among you... I'm not trolling, just
>> curious (I wouldn't normally have asked, but now I know I'm not paranoid
>> and the only one having problems, I thought I'd ask).
>>
>
> For a number a years, I've been using D for almost anything where I feel I
> really have a choice.
>
> I have been doing a lot of web work in Haxe (PHP and Flash), but it's my
> intent to migrate over to D. The two main things holding me back on that are
> the lack of a real comprehensive web-oriented library/framework that's
> comparable to Haxe's Igniter (or Python's Django), and the inability to
> compile D code down to PHP or Flash so I won't have to worry about any
> servers that I might not be about to do custom CGI on (this issue I intend
> to remedy with my still-embryonic Dax: www.dsource.org/projects/dax --
> Speaking of which, what's happened to DDMD? The main guys behind it haven't
> had made any updates in quite awhile. Just got busy with other things?).
>
> I've switched from D1/Tango to D2/Phobos fairly recently, and I haven't
> really had too much trouble with bugs or incomplete implementations,
> probably due in big part to not using too much of the more cutting-edge
> stuff. There have been some pains from bugs or unimplemented stuff, but it's
> always been far better than using a language that's mediocre to begin with.
>
> I have been avoiding doing GUI work because I'm not quite sure how far along
> QtD is, and the other D GUI libs aren't really suitable for me various
> reasons.

I've may have asked this before but how what about DWT? I see now that 
you've switch to D2 but when you used D1.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg