D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

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

I thought the problem was that D has a garbage collector. Or was 
that last week's one real reason that nobody will switch from C++ 
to D?