D, windows developement, frustration and fish

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 16:12:13 UTC, FG wrote:
> What? How did you do that and what problems did you encounter?
> Does it work with regular DMD/Druntime/Phobos or only with 
> Aliced[1]?

You can gain a big DMD compilation speed boost by using 
practically any C++ compiler other than DMC to build DMD. For 
example, there's Visual Studio project files included with the 
compiler source (although they often go out of date).