I'm quite new to D, and I've just been reading the guides. I just
wanted to say I'm very impressed with some of the features I'm
reading about. Slices, closures, the scope keyword(!!!), class
variable initialisers, anonymous array literals, array
concatenation, synchronisation... even decent exception support
is a breath of fresh air compared to C++.
I'm primarily a .NET coder these days, but sometimes you really
need more performance. Writing an OpenGL game in VB.NET is just
pointless - it doesn't execute fast enough to be of any use, even
using display lists. So, next time I need something a little more
C-like, I'll be loading up D straight away.
I have a couple of questions though. Why does the VisualD plugin
crash Visual Studio if I double-click a .sln file in Windows
Explorer? I mean, every single time? I'm using VS2010 on Windows
7 64-bit; and the problem only happens with D projects, and only
when loading an .sln file by association. If I load VS and use
the menu to open the solution, it works fine.
Why does D have GOTO? I haven't used GOTO in over a decade,
because it's truly evil.
How good is the Entice Designer? I'd like to write some GUI apps
in D, but I need to know that the designer won't fall over
halfway through; and I'll be damned if I'm writing my GUI code by
hand. Even MFC programmers have a "dialog designer".
One thing I really think D ought to have is iterators, like
VB.NET and C# have. Trust me, they're really damn useful. Any
chance of them being implemented? The implementation of .NET
iterators is well-known and fairly straightforward; all we need
is compiler support.
