In any case, I totally agree that if a language *needs* an IDE in order to cope with the amount of required boilerplate, then something is clearly very, very wrong at a fundamental level.
May be this is true for expert or professional programmers. But for people like me who only use D occasionally an IDE is a must.
IDE mainly helps me in reducing the amount of things I need to memorize or remember like API, building tool names, command syntaxes, etc. This is very important as my main profession is not programming.
I think lack of IDEs will prevent many beginners from trying out a new language. Especially after getting spoiled with IDEs like netbeans, visual studio etc.
Currently using DIDE, not perfect but better than nothing. VisualD seems to have good reviews but I cannot install it as it requires admin privileges.
All the above will still be true even for a "perfect" programming language.
