Moving back to .NET

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 21/09/15 1:01 PM, Sean Campbell wrote:
> 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.

+1EGOOGOLPLEX aka a very large number that doesn't matter

I do enjoy Mono-D use it to stream and all!