Moving back to .NET

[Sean Campbell via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 17:32:53 UTC, Adam wrote:
> Visual D, a mighty attempt to bring some sanity to D in 
> windows, is simply to unpolished to work well. It brings the 
> looks of Visual Studio but not the feel of how VS works so well 
> with .NET. I spend over an order of magnitude more time trying 
> to fix D bugs than I do in .NET. Unfortunately this makes it 
> infeasible to continue to use D.
>
> For example, I build a ~10k line app in under a week in .NET, 
> with gui and everything. In D I'm still working on getting the 
> libraries build. Even with all the power D has, what good is it 
> if you can't get off the starting line. Some will write this 
> off making some assumption, So be it.
>
> .NET is a bliss to work in, D is drudgery. If only MS would 
> build a D compiler similar to what it has done with C#. No 
> offense to all those who have worked hard on D, someone has to 
> do it. For me, .NET is like heaven, D is like hell: It's almost 
> exclusively due to the error messages and IDE.

I know what he means about visual D, it can be quite difficult to 
work with and doesn't seem very polished. That being said xamarin 
studio with the mono-D plugin is just opposite, or at least in my 
own experience and it supports both windows and *NIX.