D for Game Development

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On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 14:57:17 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Well I'm not sure what percent "serious system programming" is 
> done by other people, but I don't do any.

I understand your points. I meant to say that D is a system 
programming language (too), so it's tightly coupled to some 
internals of the OS. And Windows being a proprietary OS, Visual 
Studio or more precisely at least its runtime is likely to be 
required in the future as well.

Almost ;) proper support for Win64 in LDC is about to be 
completed with the next release. It will most likely require 
Visual Studio 2015. But that's about it, you'll just need to 
extract an LDC archive. When invoking ldc2.exe, you'll need to 
make sure some environment variables are properly set up (e.g., 
by using a Visual Studio command prompt), for it to find the 
linker, libs etc.

Last time I built clang (from source, using Visual Studio) I was 
amazed by how painless that was. LLVM requires VS 2013 atm (at 
least for building), but Windows/MSVC support is still being 
finalized (native MSVCRT exception handling etc.). VS 2008 is 
really quite old by now, so I'd really recommend upgrading (VS 
2015 Community is free btw).