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[Sean Kelly]

On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 January 2012 18:09, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Why even argue this? What's the point in intentionally making D unappealing to anyone who works in a non-linux professional environment? Do you aim to alienate those users from the community; keep the community nice and small...
> I honestly don't understand how so many people around here can blindly consider windows users, and 'IDE users' in general, a niche or minority user base, and also, what the value of presenting this argument might actually be?

I wasn't making any sort of argument, I was merely surprised at this statement.  Even most of the Java devs I know aren't this reliant on an IDE. 
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