D Users Survey: Primary OS?

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 1 23:47:03 PDT 2014


On 30/05/14 16:07, Chris wrote:

> Mind you, D doesn't need omnipotent toolchains. A text editor and
> command line will do. I now use DUB, but you can still get away with "$
> dmd app.d ..." or shell script. Toolchains and IDE's should not be a
> criterion for evaluating a language. "Oh, D doesn't have an IDE / proper
> toolchain", that doesn't mean the language is bad. It actually means
> that the language is so good, it doesn't need them. It's a nice-to-have
> but not a must have.

"Tool chain" includes the compiler (and linker), which D needs both to 
be usable.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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