D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

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For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media (Hi 
Andrei!):

The following article about Rust made it to the front page of HN 
and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/

Here is the part mentioning D:

"Well, as you probably remember, it is far not the first attempt 
to create a "better" C/C++. Take the D language, for instance. It 
was released in 2001 and is a good language indeed. But there are 
no vacancies, no decent development tools, no remarkable success 
stories associated with it. The OpenMW project was initially 
started in D but then the authors suddenly decided to completely 
rewrite it into C++. As they confessed, they'd been receiving 
piles of emails where people would say, "you are making a cool 
project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we don't know and 
neither feel like studying this silly D". Wikipedia tells us that 
there were a lot of other attempts besides D to kill C++ - for 
example Vala, Cyclone, Limbo, BitC. How many of you have even 
heard of these languages?"

Walter would probably violently disagree with the "no decent 
development tools" assessment. But I got to say that people used 
to Visual Studio and XCode (like myself) not being impressed  by 
D's 1980s-style bare basic command line tools is not surprising.

I think an IDE, one could call it "DCode" (great name, isn't 
it?), which integrates all the available tools and provides a 
modern graphical interface to them would do wonders.

I used to be a command line / text editor / handwritten builds 
scripts guy myself. But then I was forced to use Visual Studio 
for a project and now I do not want to go back.