D1 + Tango == yes! Excellent combo, but serious lack in the toolchain department. DMD and OPTLINK especially is a failboat currently. LDC is based on LLVM and i

D1 + Tango == yes! Excellent combo, but serious lack in the toolchain department. DMD and OPTLINK especially is a failboat currently. LDC is based on LLVM and is "the future", but lacks windows support (exceptions! and this is inherently LLVM's problem now). DDBG is a good debugger, but is unmaintained. GDC is D on GCC, but is unmaintained. D2 on the other hand doesn't feel like D anymore at all. Sure, there are a couple of nice things in it like ranges, but on the general perspective I could make this comparison: D1 is like C with C++ made right. D2 is D++, what C++ is to C - bloat and inconsistency. There is also a huuuge problem with D2 and leadership/drama, which split the community. There is also problem with Phobos vs Tango - where Tango is clearly and measurably better, but that thread of issues leads to leadership drama. Let me be clear on this (I use D every day for my projects - I am into graphics/gamedev with it). Do yourself a favor and learn D1/Tango - toolchain is bearable and there is a book about it from Apress. Community is responsive (#d, #d.tango on freenode if you demand prompt resolutions). Use Tango from SVN, use LDC or DMD if you are on Windows. Also, check out http://www.team0xf.com:1024 http://www.team0xf.com:1024 - especially dog (OpenGL platform agnostic binding) and hybrid (gui on top of it). Check out http://www.dsource.org http://www.dsource.org . There are some movements within the community that will resolve by themselves soon enough - it's too good to fall apart. In the mean time you should really do yourself a favor and give it a go.