There's an unanswered question on Stack Overflow about D. Anyone cares to write a response?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289087/applications-development-with-d-language

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For those who had developed applications with D,

   * which libraries did you use to build your application?
   * those libraries were good documented?
   * did you use Tango?
   * do you feel that D is ready to build big applications?
   * which IDE did you use? Descent maybe?

     Thanks in advance. Jonathan.
"""

BTW, this isn't old, only 22 hours old. (I checked this time)

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo escribió:
> There's an unanswered question on Stack Overflow about D. Anyone cares to write a response?
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289087/applications-development-with-d-language 
> 
> 
> """
> For those who had developed applications with D,
> 
>    * which libraries did you use to build your application?
>    * those libraries were good documented?
>    * did you use Tango?
>    * do you feel that D is ready to build big applications?
>    * which IDE did you use? Descent maybe?
> 
>      Thanks in advance. Jonathan.
> """
> 
> BTW, this isn't old, only 22 hours old. (I checked this time)

That's a friend of mine, he studies with me and we worked together some months.

I mentioned D to him a couple of times, but it surprised me to find his question in stackoverflow, so I asked him what he was trying to do. He said:

"It's an application that will do a lot of numeric calculations. C++ gives me headaches because of all of it's errors and because there are so many exceptions in the syntax rules for someone that programs in Java. D would be a good substitute assuming it has a similar performance, but if I use D I think I won't find libraries, or find out that the community has little support. This is reasonable, it's a smaller community than what it is in Java or C++."

So I asked him which libraries he needs, and he replied:

"I would need to read different sound file formats, at least the well-known ones. I didn't search it, but I think it would be hard to find that. Also for image treatment, is there such thing in D? And multithreading support?

Can you interface with C code? It would be cool if you could interface with C++ code, I think every person that currently develops in C++ could seriosly think about switching to D"

I know some of the answers, but I'm sure the community can answer in a better way all of these questions.

(Also note that he knows C++, but he programs in Java, and he's trying to find something close to the machine, fast, that has OOP support and all the goodies of a higher level language... that's the same thing I'm looking for... so targeting D just towards any kind of programmer instead of just C++ programmers is good)

Ary Borenszweig escribió:
> Julio César Carrascal Urquijo escribió:
>> There's an unanswered question on Stack Overflow about D. Anyone cares to write a response?
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/289087/applications-development-with-d-language 
>>
>>
>> """
>> For those who had developed applications with D,
>>
>>    * which libraries did you use to build your application?
>>    * those libraries were good documented?
>>    * did you use Tango?
>>    * do you feel that D is ready to build big applications?
>>    * which IDE did you use? Descent maybe?
>>
>>      Thanks in advance. Jonathan.
>> """
>>
>> BTW, this isn't old, only 22 hours old. (I checked this time)
> 
> That's a friend of mine, he studies with me and we worked together some months.
> 
> I mentioned D to him a couple of times, but it surprised me to find his question in stackoverflow, so I asked him what he was trying to do. He said:
> 
> "It's an application that will do a lot of numeric calculations. C++ gives me headaches because of all of it's errors and because there are so many exceptions in the syntax rules for someone that programs in Java. D would be a good substitute assuming it has a similar performance, but if I use D I think I won't find libraries, or find out that the community has little support. This is reasonable, it's a smaller community than what it is in Java or C++."
> 
> So I asked him which libraries he needs, and he replied:
> 
> "I would need to read different sound file formats, at least the well-known ones. I didn't search it, but I think it would be hard to find that. Also for image treatment, is there such thing in D? And multithreading support?
> 
> Can you interface with C code? It would be cool if you could interface with C++ code, I think every person that currently develops in C++ could seriosly think about switching to D"
> 
> I know some of the answers, but I'm sure the community can answer in a better way all of these questions.
> 
> (Also note that he knows C++, but he programs in Java, and he's trying to find something close to the machine, fast, that has OOP support and all the goodies of a higher level language... that's the same thing I'm looking for... so targeting D just towards any kind of programmer instead of just C++ programmers is good)

In case I wasn't clear enough, this chat I had with him was after he posted the question in stackoverflow, so he's still waiting an answer from me. :-)

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Can you interface with C code? It would be cool if you could
>> interface with C++ code, I think every person that currently develops >> in C++ could seriosly think about switching to D"

D can partly interface with C++ (ie C++ classes but not templates) and completely interface with C code.

-Joel