Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 03:55:50 UTC, Manu wrote:
> [snip]
> Editing the path variable is one of the most unenjoyable and 
> annoying things to do in windows. start -> settings -> system 
> -> advanced system settings -> environment variables -> PATH -> 
> note the stupid window that appears; a single-line text box 
> created in 1995 (or earlier?), which barely lets you see a 
> single path in a line that's probably a few kb long... whenever 
> you touch it, you know you're likely breaking something on your 
> system that currently works ;) People do it if they have to; in 
> my current case, dev's MUST setup emscripten to build the web 
> frontend, and they proceed to complain about how shit the 
> toolchain experience is, but they are forced to use it 
> regardless... nobody is forced to use D. They must find 
> themselves actively drawn to use D.

Just a little aside tip, Windows search these days is actually 
really excellent for settings like this (and programs). Windows 
Key + "env" + Enter is enough to get you to the dialog.

I completely agree that you should almost never have to do this 
though.