Manu wrote:
Eg, I press '.' and the list of methods appears, and I skim
through the
list and choose the one that looks appropriate, I'll choose
receive, and
then I'll be puzzled by the argument list and why it doesn't
work like I
expect, after a little wasted time, I may begrudgingly read the
manual... I
personally feel this is an API failure, and the single most
important thing
that C# gets right. You can literally code C# effectively with
absolutely
no prior knowledge of the language just using the '.' key with
code-complete in your IDE. The API's are really exceptionally
intuitive.
This is a big restraint to D's popularity. It's certainly a
complaint I've heard from others. An IDE with intelligence might
have been a luxury in the past, but it's quickly becoming
essential to large project development. Things like hunting
through poorly cross-referenced documentation just to find out
how to convert a string to an int, then doing it all over again
when you realize the same function doesn't go both ways is just a
pain in the ass.
