What's the current state of D?

[torhu]

On 10.05.2009 00:05, mpt wrote:
> 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.

Tango trunk has stacktrace functionality for both Windows and linux I 
think.  There's also a Phobos backtrace patch.