Which tools do you miss in D?

[Sönke Ludwig]

Am 27.01.2014 09:23, schrieb Manu:
> I made an interesting observation recently... D has kind of ruined my
> career ;)
> Before I started using D a lot, I found C/C++ quite okay as a language.
> But after extended time using D, I find C/C++ borderline intolerable,
> and don't enjoy writing it at all.
> But the tooling built around C/C++ is pretty good, and as such, I find
> the tooling while working in D borderline intolerable.
>
> So, before, I generally enjoyed my work, and felt generally productive.
> Now days, whenever I do any work in either language, I find one aspect
> or the other borderline intolerable, and I have trouble enjoying
> spending my time programming for long periods before getting frustrated
> and going and doing something else...
>
> I'm quite serious, this is a true realisation of an unconscious
> behaviour. D ruined C/C++ for me, but my expectations of C/C++'s tooling
> still remains a barrier to my enjoyment of writing D code all time
> time... I'm fucked!

So true for me, too... to the point that I'm sometimes mentally blocked 
from performing some simple kind of refactoring or implementing a little 
feature in C++ because my brain simply refuses to do that in such a 
sub-optimal way :(

With declining frequency of programming in C++ this got much worse (I 
was using D for some hobby projects besides my mostly C++ day job for 
some years until I finally also used it for a project at work before I 
quit and now use D almost exclusively).