D vs Go in real life

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 29/11/13 14:53, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> Why did you install dmd from source and not the same way as Go? It's a bit
> unfair comparison. Dub is a package manager for D, with many libraries available.

There is absolutely no point trying to complain about "unfair comparison" here. 
  The real question you have to ask is why there wasn't an obvious equivalent to 
Go's "install the default build for my platform".

You can say, "Hey, D does have that equivalent, the .zip installer, or the .deb 
or .rpm files ...!" but that's not the point.  The point is why OP considered 
that the natural way to do things was to install from source.

The obvious solution to this is that the homepage should have a Big Friendly 
Button shouting "Get started with D!" that should take you to a page which 
auto-detects your system and makes available an appropriate installer.