Is the D community lacking development tools?

[simendsjo]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:21 +0200, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:36:54 -0400, Jonathan M Davis  
> <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, May 25, 2012 13:52:05 simendsjo wrote:
>>> Couldn't dmd automatically add an assert(c) in debug mode before  
>>> accessing
>>> members?
>>
>> That's been argued for ages. Walter is against it, because the OS  
>> already
>> takes care of it with segfaults.
(...)
>
> No, I'd rather have a stack trace printed from the signal handler...
>

I asked about that in learn some time ago, but I seem to remember the  
discussion ended as not enough information is present when the signal  
handler is called or something..?