End user experience with D

[Ludovit Lucenic]

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 23:22:30 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 22:21:10 UTC, Ramon wrote:
>> Finally and possibly most importantly, basically not having 
>> fully working  debugger support is a very serious lack.
>
> Maybe it is because I write 100% bug free code the first time 
> every time ( :-) ) but I've found the gdb support, at least on 
> Linux, to be really pretty good.

You don't mean it, do you ? :-D

> I compile with -gc -debug - the "pretend to be C" option is 
> something I started doing years ago and might not be necessary 
> anymore, but I've found it to be plenty good enough anyway.
>
>> D's bias toward Windows doesn't help either.
>
> If anything, I don't think D goes far enough in its Windows 
> support. It works well there, sure, even the optlink things 
> others complain about don't bother me, but there's a lot of 
> stuff it could easily do and doesn't, at least not without 
> grabbing additional downloads.
>
> On Linux, dmd works quite excellently, as do gdc and ldc.

I wish we could say the same for them running on Windows...