Is the D community lacking development tools?

Tue May 22 09:55:14 PDT 2012

On May 22, 2012, at 7:43 AM, "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:18:47PM +0200, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:03:36 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
>>> http://d-coding.com/2012/05/22/is-the-d-community-lacking-development-tools.html
>> 
>> My opinion - no.
> [...]
> 
> +1. For me, vim + dmd/gdc is Good Enough(tm). Other tools are nice to
> have, but not a must.

It depends on the platform. GDB works fine on Linux, but is pretty much broken on OSX. Does Visual Studio work on Windows? Because that standalone debugger bundled with DMD is garbage. 