On 1 September 2013 20:40, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 02:05:51 UTC, Manu wrote:

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Thought number one after reading "This is why I absolutely hate programming for Windows!" :) Was pretty happy with vim, grep, gdb and makefiles on Linux. Anyway, key problem (as far as I can see) here is that few of D developers have both experience and personal interest in any IDE/Windows focus as well as related tool stack. D has some nice flavor of anarchy - both like it and consider it a problem.

Plenty of the key contributors are Windows users, including Walter I believe.

My suggestion is to encourage dev's to use the same tools the end users are using, and declare them first-class language features. I reckon it'll improve quick-smart under that environment.