DMD - Windows

[Froglegs]

  A great IDE is essential for D to really succeed.

  Visual D is a solid start but it isn't really usable for a large 
project yet.

-  The debugging experience is funky, it can't seem to see many 
variables
-  hovering over variables generally doesn't show anything useful
-  hitting . doesn't pop up possible members
-  very limited syntax highlighting

  D might have simplified C++ syntax, but it is still quite 
complex, not having an IDE that supports the type of things that 
Visual Studio supports is just painful-- I doubt D has any chance 
in the game industry without much better VS support.

Aside from C++ I also use Lua quite often and even in a light 
weight scripting language like Lua I much prefer an 
IDE(Decoda--Manu it works with embedded scripts btw).