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[Sean Kelly]

Seriously?  I usually turn that feature off if I use an IDE that has it. Large projects aren't an issue. I've worked on some counted in millions of lines of code. 

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On Jan 21, 2012, at 7:23 AM, "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.