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you can't expect Walter to know anything about business, he is a techie.
Mono D is quite a nice IDE (well technically an extension) but it does everything you really want from an IDE for D
it's also free and easily available and supports things like debugging, monoD isn't quite enterprise ready but i can't see it lacking that potential
what D needs is:
1) A decent book on language basics, Alexandrescu arrogantly compares his book to K&R but it's complete crap. K&R nicely introduces the concepts of the language and gives intriguing exercises to newbies etc, Alexandrescu on the other hand just regurgitates code at you, it's a HORRIBLE book, the only other book is a tango book, and tango is shit standard library.
D needs a book to teach phobos to a complete newbie, Aiming tutorials at experience programmers never creates a good tutorial.
2) a structured tutorial/book on GTKD
what is a language without a tutorial on any GUI library?
D is the only language that seems to suffer from this deficiency,
this alone could put businesses off from adapting D
3)book on the other libraries (OpenGL, SDL etc)
the accessibility of the language is key to it's adaptation, people will not be motivated to learn the language if they have to search for hour ors constantly bother communities to try and obtain information they could get in a 5 minute google search with C
i would be inclined to write an open Latex book to address these 3 issues but i am both too inexperienced for especially 3 and i also know i would be too lazy and abandon the whole thing after a couple of days