Is D production-ready?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/16/2014 8:14 PM, seeker wrote:
> NO IT'S NOT!
> no working/incomplete windows headers for 32 and 64 bit.
> no gui or db lib and tons of abandoned libs and proggies that you
> mentioned.
>
> if your are on linux like most of the lieutenants and the vice-general
> you may be fine.

YES IT IS!

I've been using D on Windows just fine for years and so have several 
others. The Windows API binding works just fine if you need the Win32 
API, either Andrej Mitrovic's version at github[1] or the original at 
DSource[2]. There are a growing number of tools and GUI libraries 
available, too. Just because the compiler doesn't ship with everything 
in one nice package, and just because the Windows ecosystem doesn't have 
a plethora of tools that you can count on being available like on Linux, 
does not mean DMD development favors Linux.

[1] https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming
[2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi


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