Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 18:48:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/20/2013 8:31 AM, Chris wrote:
>> I don't know if it's still on the website here somewhere. But 
>> I remember reading
>> (2 years or so ago) that D shouldn't require a big IDE but 
>> should be manageable
>> using a text editor and a compiler. And it is true. So far, I 
>> haven't used an
>> IDE for my D programming.
>
> The idea was when a colleague of mine said that Java IDEs were 
> great because with "one button click" one could insert "a 
> hundred lines of boilerplate". That struck me as the IDE making 
> up for a severe expressive deficit in the language, and that D 
> shouldn't have such expressive deficits.

And this is a big big plus. In Java you cannot just write a tiny 
little main-function or in fact any function just to test 
something. You have to write an epic first. These little things 
do matter.

>
> However, something like intellisense would be quite nice.

Yes, I agree. But with D it's a nice-to-have not a must-have.