D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
> 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.

1980s?

I recently switched from C++ full-time to D full-time and with 
VisualD and Mago I simply don't have anything to miss. The 
debugging experience is only a tiny notch behind vanilla VS with 
C++ and the project management is a lot better

So for me, tooling is at least as good as C++.
To me languages without language package manager (like C++) are 
precisely the 1980s way of programming, alone in a corner and 
with minimal reuse.

I don't see how XCode is anything to miss by the way either :). 
Mono-D can probably do better.


> 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.

You don't have to go back.