Moving back to .NET

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 05:55:08 UTC, jdeath wrote:
> you guys are nuts.
> instead of thinking about this shit, you should think about how 
> to make D usable for windows programmers.
> don't think about linux crutsches. in my company people are not 
> even willing to think about D, since it has stone age tools, 
> few usable libraries and is changing at a rate that is 
> incredible.
> now c# will be compiled to machine code - people you lost.

There are people working on writing and supporting tools that fit 
better with the mindset of many Windows-centric devs (e.g. that's 
why we have VisualD). But for the most part, the kinds of folks 
who have been using D don't seem to care much about that sort of 
thing, and there's tons of other stuff to work on, so many of 
them work on other stuff. With open source projects, folks tend 
to work on what they care about or view as important. For some 
folks, that's IDEs and build tools and the like, but for many 
others, it's the language itself or libraries.

You can choose to use D or not, and you can choose to work on 
D-related stuff or not (which could be GUI-centric tools if 
that's what you care about), but just because you want something 
doesn't mean that that's what the other folks working on a 
project want or care about it, and just because the folks that 
you work with don't like where D is with Windows-centric tools 
doesn't mean that D is a lost cause. It just means that it 
doesn't fit what you're looking for right now.

- Jonathan M Davis