StackOverflow: Applications development with D language

[Ary Borenszweig]

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo escribió:
> There's an unanswered question on Stack Overflow about D. Anyone cares 
> to write a response?
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289087/applications-development-with-d-language 
> 
> 
> """
> For those who had developed applications with D,
> 
>    * which libraries did you use to build your application?
>    * those libraries were good documented?
>    * did you use Tango?
>    * do you feel that D is ready to build big applications?
>    * which IDE did you use? Descent maybe?
> 
>      Thanks in advance. Jonathan.
> """
> 
> BTW, this isn't old, only 22 hours old. (I checked this time)

That's a friend of mine, he studies with me and we worked together some 
months.

I mentioned D to him a couple of times, but it surprised me to find his 
question in stackoverflow, so I asked him what he was trying to do. He said:

"It's an application that will do a lot of numeric calculations. C++ 
gives me headaches because of all of it's errors and because there are 
so many exceptions in the syntax rules for someone that programs in 
Java. D would be a good substitute assuming it has a similar 
performance, but if I use D I think I won't find libraries, or find out 
that the community has little support. This is reasonable, it's a 
smaller community than what it is in Java or C++."

So I asked him which libraries he needs, and he replied:

"I would need to read different sound file formats, at least the 
well-known ones. I didn't search it, but I think it would be hard to 
find that. Also for image treatment, is there such thing in D? And 
multithreading support?

Can you interface with C code? It would be cool if you could interface 
with C++ code, I think every person that currently develops in C++ could 
seriosly think about switching to D"

I know some of the answers, but I'm sure the community can answer in a 
better way all of these questions.

(Also note that he knows C++, but he programs in Java, and he's trying 
to find something close to the machine, fast, that has OOP support and 
all the goodies of a higher level language... that's the same thing I'm 
looking for... so targeting D just towards any kind of programmer 
instead of just C++ programmers is good)