What's the current state of D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"mpt" <mpt at ikikiki.fi> wrote in message 
news:gu4unq$16e2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I keep making 2 mistakes in my D programs, and fixing them feels
> troublesome.
>
> 1. Null references. I get a segfault and gdb is useless (ldc thing maybe).
> 2. Exceptions. It prints the msg nicely, but it's unhelpful in tracing
> the real cause of error.
>
> Shouldn't there be an automatic null check for references and stack
> traces? Sometimes I think I'm using the wrong tool as others have
> solutions for these.

These are two very common complaints, and there has been a lot of disussion 
about both. Hopefully they'll get taken care of.