Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[SomeDude]

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 17:54:01 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 17:39:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> ...
>
> There is crucial difference between having a company providing 
> commercial services for D users (good) and having anything 
> closed/commercial in reference implementation (bad). Former is 
> simply matching the demand from certain market segment. Latter 
> is screwing the life for everyone else. There is hardly 
> anything common here.

Wait, I do not advocate building a closed source or non free 
reference implementation of the compiler or of the standard 
library.
Those need to stay open source of course.

But there are plenty of pro quality tools that are sorely missing 
right now:
- an IDE that works with any of the 3 existing compilers
- an integrated debugger
- a graphical memory usage viewer/analyzer
- a visual profiler
- an integrated package manager
- maybe a GUI library

Etc. The existence of such tools would be a very big incentive 
for companies to try D seriously.