Incomprehensible compiler errors

[Stuart]

On Monday, 30 July 2012 at 23:07:35 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Stuart:
>
>> I'm about ready to give up here. I like the idea of D, but 
>> it's like using fucking Linux:
>
> I understand. The troubles you find are present in widely used 
> languages. D is a young language and it's not widespread, so 
> you are going to find even more problems.

The problem isn't that it's a young language; the problem is that 
it follows the Linux ideology - which, in a nutshell, is "make 
the user compile every damn thing, and make the user type 
everything longhand in emacs".

It's not D itself I have a problem with. It's the complete lack 
of reliable tools for it. No IDE. No GUI designer. No nothing. 
Coding a real application in D is like using Cobra, or Nemerle - 
in short, frustrating and slow.

>> All I want is to be able to write a GUI application using 
>> phrases like "button1.dock = Fill". Is that so much to ask? 
>> Apparently it is.
>
> Take a look at the Rebol language.

I took a quick look. It didn't look like anything suitable for 
creating native GUI applications. It looked totally insane.