No rdmd.exe in /bin64 on Windows - is this an issue?

Scotpip geoff at variosoft.co.uk
Tue Jul 13 15:16:53 UTC 2021


Mike - I'm bowled over by your response - what a great 
introduction to the community!

You've given me the confidence to dig in and really learn the 
language.

I had a brief flirtation with one of the newer niche system 
languages but ran into showstoppers pretty early on. The 
community was great, but... Very sketchy docs. A datetime library 
that doesn't handle timezones? And no mature unit-testing 
framework?? And that was just the first couple of days - who 
knows what other showstoppers were lurking. Seems that there's a 
reason why some of these languages aren't used in serious 
production, no matter how sexy the syntax and the benchmarks...

D feels like another world. Obviously professional design, with 
some very powerful features, like the Contract Programming and 
the UFCS. You can quickly sense the depth of experience behind 
this. Massive and mature standard lib. Great docs and tutorials. 
Feels like an industrial-strength language with actual corporate 
users.

Can't imagine why it hasn't achieved more traction in the C/C++ 
community, but I'm sure I'm not the first to make that 
observation...

Oh - I did find the dub build feature after I posted. Seems that 
you guys had the idea of integrated build and package management 
before Rust. It does make a lot of sense, I just wasn't expecting 
to see it here.

Anyway, thanks again for your help - much appreciated.


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