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

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 September 2015 at 04:48:35 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I know the commandline scares away your average joe. That's the 
> kind of audience GUIs are catered to, which is understandable. 
> What gets annoying is when you're *forced* to use GUI even if 
> you're not the average joe. Many tasks in Windows simply cannot 
> be done without clicking through the GUI. You have no choice in 
> the matter. Where it get ugly is when the GUIs in question have 
> issues, like non-resizeability or non-copyability where there's 
> no *technical* reason why it cannot be done. That's when I 
> start wishing it was Linux where I can just fire up a text 
> editor and edit system config files directly instead of getting 
> an aneurysm from clicking the rodent trying to coax it to do 
> what I want.

Well, any interface may or may not provide desired features. It 
being config files, CLI or API, every feature still must be 
implemented, and if it's not the user is out of luck.