Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lutger wrote:
> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> 
>> Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
> ...
>>> For instance properties seem to be a fundamental thing in Delphi and C#.
>>> When you are debugging and you watch some varaible, the debugger
>>> automatically allows you to expand a node and see the varaible's
>>> properties. You can't do that with D because any function that has zero
>>> parameters could be a property, even though some functions aren't
>>> properties.
>> While working on QtD I have also come up with the conclusion that D needs
>> proper properties. Qt itself greatly relies on properties and it makes a
>> lot of cool things possible. Of course C++ doesn't support them, it is
>> done via Qt metatype system. When D goes popular, IDEs will severely lack
>> this functionality from the language.
> 
> There have been a lot of discussions on this topic in the past but I can't 
> recall any conclusions. Perhaps some brave soul would dare to write a DIP on  
> properties? 
> 
> 

Yes please.

Andrei