Could D have fit Microsoft's needs?

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2019-07-23 at 00:47 +0000, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> Not everyone uses an IDE.  It's obviously an impediment to 
> adoption in the games industry judging by what Manu says, but 
> there are other industries besides games and in some places 
> people don't use IDEs much at all.
[…]

Restricting a programming language to Emacs/VIM/Atom/etc. users is clearly a
bad idea, especially when the (e.g. Emacs) support really isn't that great.

Rust support in CLion is fantastic, D support is currently (huge apologies to
the splendid volunteer team, but it is nonetheless true) inadequate. JetBrains
see an income stream from the Rust plugin, they see no user community using D
and CLion – I emphasise CLion over IntelliJ IDEA here as CLion has gdb
support.

I am (was) an Emacs person, but compared to using CLion, Emacs is inadequate
for software development.

(I have a guest post on the JetBrains CLion blog currently going through
production, hopefully my plea for JetBrains support for the D plugin gets
picked up by many, many others so that JetBrains can see an income potential.)

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Russel.
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