Why do you continue to use D?

[Andre Pany]

On Friday, 5 June 2020 at 08:39:09 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 12:44 +1000, Manu via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote: […]
>> [...]
>
> 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.

Please also have a look at Visual Studio Code and code-d 
extension. It works really nice and debugging also works great.

Kind regards
Andre