I've been playing with D for a bit, but something that's preventing me from using it for any serious tasks is the apparent lack of a usable debugger.
I was playing with D under OS X. Editing code was fine, but trying to debug on the platform was slap in the face. Looks like GDB is the only recommended approach under OS X and guess what? GDB was removed from the latest OS X version Mavericks. LLDB sort of works, but between the name mangling and super verbose command-line interface it was pure torture to use. I could try and get the mac ports version of GDB, but then I'll have to deal with having both brew and ports on the same system. So, I moved over to Windows. I've installed Visual D on VS 2012 (at this point I'm scared to install it on my machine with VS 2013). Once again, I can edit and build mostly OK, but debugging appears to be almost completely broken. Almost all of the important VS hot-keys for debugging fail with a dialog box "The method or operation is not implemented" (F5, Ctrl+Shift+F5, F10, F11). I've tried with both the cv2pdb and mango options. Does anyone use a debugger on D code? Does GDB on Linux work? What am I missing? Thanks, -Chris
