Moving back to .NET

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 18:36:01 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 September 2015 at 11:01:28 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Sunday, 20 September 2015 at 17:32:53 UTC, Adam wrote:
>>
>>> It's almost exclusively due to the error messages and IDE. I 
>>> know many here will write off such complaints, So be it.
>>>
>>
>> The thing is that a lot of people who use D don't mind the 
>> lack of IDE support.
>
> IDE is not just a nice interface to write code. It's a way to 
> organize files, AST based file browsing, github integration, 
> and - the most important aspect for me - is the *integrated 
> debugging support*. I'll never use dmd from command line and 
> the lack of IDE support would be definitely a stopper for me.
>
> The same people not minding the lack of IDE support are usually 
> the Linux guys. Personally, I don't know any Windows developer 
> masochistic enough to use the command line when an IDE is 
> available for the task described above.

Whenever I (have to) work on a Windows machine, I use command 
line + text editor (Textadept). I've written a batch file that I 
call to compile the code, because there were problems due to dub 
not being able to create a dll. If I don't create a dll, I use 
dub. No problem. Why go through all the pain of setting up Visual 
whatever, if you can sort it out easily yourself?