Weak Eco System?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 17:11:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:
> On 05/16/2017 10:51 AM, Benro wrote:
>> A quick summary trying to get D and a some IDEs running on a 
>> Windows
>> environment.
>>
>
> Full-on IDEs always make simple things complicated. If you're 
> on Windows, I highly recommend Programmer's Notepad 2. Works 
> great with D out-of-the-box (as well as gobs of other 
> languages), is lightning-quick and responsive, and highly 
> configurable.
>
> Sublime Text is equally good, if you don't mind a non-native UI.
>
> If you're ever checking it out on Linux, KDevelop is pretty 
> decent. Heck, even Kate has built-in D support.

I'm in agreement on that. I used IDEs for a while, but there was 
a lot of mental overhead, at least for me. But I can understand 
that someone coming from a language like Java would feel that an 
IDE is a necessity.

What I find a bit surprising is someone holding up Go as an 
example of a language with a good IDE situation. Back when I used 
Go (before discovering D) I saw almost exactly the same 
discussions. Go had no goods IDEs and it was hurting adoption and 
you can't program without an IDE. The responses were pretty much 
the same as those here: you don't need an IDE to write Go code. 
As an example, there's this thread from 2015, long after I had 
moved on from Go: 
https://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language-What-is-the-best-IDE-to-use-for-Go