Why do you continue to use D?

[Bruce Carneal]

On Friday, 5 June 2020 at 09:08:23 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> 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

+1.  Like Andre, I really like VS Code+code-d.  Then again I 
jumped to VS Code from a 70s era text editor that I originally 
wrote in VAX assembly language, not a patch on CLion.  My guess 
is that I was the only person in the world still using the editor 
whereas CLion, according to a recent survey of Rust programmers, 
is used by 1.1% of the 3997 respondents.  The same article has 
VSCode in first place at 34.9%.

As I've inferred from many of Russel's postings, the tools 
surrounding the language matter, a lot.  I agree completely.  
It's easier for people to start using D, and continue using D, 
when the tools offload the mechanical.  Hats off to the D tool 
builders!