My first experience as a D Newbie

[Peter R]

Replying to a couple of the comments here

"I don't know if it's a different expectation or a different 
mindset or something else."
I'd like to think I'm fairly knowledgeable, but Yes, I expect 
installing/configuring to be easy and quick, so I can get to the 
actual programming. I expect solid debugging capabilities, full 
IDE support, autocomplete, and 64-bit windows libraries. It is 
just some of the things that I am used to with Visual C++. 
"Better than C++" is my motivation to evaluate D, and to me that 
goes beyond just the language and standard library.
If I, as a new user, don't have a solid first impression, I'd 
have no expectation that the rest of the D ecosystem is polished, 
and I would return to C++

"even when we do have IDE support (e.g. VisualD), it never seems 
to be enough for some folks."
I tried VisualD, but the fact that it didn't use dub underneath 
made me think "that's not the way people are supposed to use D". 
That is why I started the VSCode path- that felt more in the 
spirit of the D ecosystem.

I admit I didn't consider evaluating DLangIDE earlier. I am used 
to Visual Studio, so that was my first choice. If I have to learn 
a second editor I want one that is known to work with many 
languages and lots of plugin support, so I picked VS Code.