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Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 07:32:41 PST 2012


On 21 January 2012 17:23, F i L <witte2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Manu wrote:
>
>> Eg, I press '.' and the list of methods appears, and I skim through the
>> list and choose the one that looks appropriate, I'll choose receive, and
>> then I'll be puzzled by the argument list and why it doesn't work like I
>> expect, after a little wasted time, I may begrudgingly read the manual...
>> I
>> personally feel this is an API failure, and the single most important
>> thing
>> that C# gets right. You can literally code C# effectively with absolutely
>> no prior knowledge of the language just using the '.' key with
>> code-complete in your IDE. The API's are really exceptionally intuitive.
>>
>
> This is a big restraint to D's popularity. It's certainly a complaint I've
> heard from others. An IDE with intelligence might have been a luxury in the
> past, but it's quickly becoming essential to large project development.
> Things like hunting through poorly cross-referenced documentation just to
> find out how to convert a string to an int, then doing it all over again
> when you realize the same function doesn't go both ways is just a pain in
> the ass.
>

'quickly becoming' :) .. I think that happened 5 years ago. It's long been
a basic requirement, and does really need some attention.
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