Applications development with D language

Question

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?

Answer 1

• DFL (GUI), Decent (for OpenGL), CUDA (GPGPU)
• DFL was decently documented, but lacked cross referencing. Decent/ CUDA are mainly C wrappers, though D made making nice internal API for CUDA very easy.
• No, I've been using Phobos
• Yes, though there are certain types of big applications which would be much faster to write in another language.
• I've been using Code::blocks for my principal IDE and Entice for GUI design.

Answer 2

• Tango
• Yes, albeit a little more examples could be good
• Yes
• Yes, I think so. But if the programmers are used to full-fledged IDEs (MS Visual Studio), they probably wouldn't like D,
• I use a small custom-made Scintilla-based editor, with options to build applications using bud, dsss or dmd.

Answer 3

I used tango libraries + dfl and a bit of my own. Tango documentation is excellent. DFL not bad. Yes I did use tango then but tried phobos at first. Ready for big apps? depends on what you mean. In production use I have only used it for frontends and updaters. So far I've only used vim to code and entice to design gui because I couldn't find the right ide for me.

Answer 4

Code blocks seems to support D.

Answer 5

• Mainly those I develop myself - SDWF and Stewart's Utility Library.
• I hope so.
• No.
• Yes, though I'm not sure that libraries and IDE support are quite ready yet. And D isn't quite ready for significant third-party implementation, which might play a part in reaching this stage.
• I do most of my editing in TextPad. Which admittedly isn't fully compatible with D (two missing syntax highlighting features, and doesn't support Unicode), but it works.

Answer 6

Note that any C library can be used with D, as D fully supports the C ABI. D has some limited support for C++ libraries, though not C++ template libraries.