Why do you continue to use D?

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 12:44 +1000, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Back on-topic; I still use D because I just can't stand C++, and I somehow
> fundamentally believe D can 'get there'... but god is it a hard and
> frustrating road! Eternally so close, but always juuuust misses the mark.
> Maybe one day we'll land the shot >_<

For me writing GTK+ desktop applications, I'd rather use D than Rust or Vala
(I do not actually use Vala at all as it is just too niche), but the developer
experience with Rust is just so much nicer than using D. Writing Rust code is
harder than writing the same functionality in D (except for asynchronous and
futures based code, where Rust just wins over D hands down), but the D plugin
to CLion and IntelliJ IDEA isn't anywhere near the capability of the Rust
plugin. Writing all code with Emacs, Bash and lldb is just a terrible
experience, despite the wonders of Emacs.

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