D seems interesting, but...

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-10-15 05:10, Gerry Weaver wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have been looking at D off and on for several years. Initially I
> worked through a very painful experience to get D compiling on Linux.
> After that experience, I concluded that I should wait for it to become
> more mature. Since then, I do a very simple test. I install the latest
> package and try to build "Hello World". I figure that if "Hello World"
> builds successfully, I will continue further. I have just downloaded the
> latest .deb package and installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. Once again
> it fails this incredibly simple test. I've read many discussions about
> how/why, has/hasn't, will/won't D hit the mainstream in programming
> languages. I think this situation may offer at least one data point. I'm
> struggling to think of any other language (and I use several) that won't
> build code out of the box. D seems to have a lot of potential, but this
> needs to be fixed. I am not asking for help on this. I honestly don't
> care what the solution is. I just wanted the D developers to know why at
> least one developer is not using the language. I sincerely hope that the
> situation will improve. I'm looking forward to programming in D.

Just use DVM, it's also cross-platform:

https://bitbucket.org/doob/dvm

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg