Usability of D on windows?

[Sean Campbell via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 23 August 2016 at 21:15:40 UTC, John Burton wrote:
> I've recently gone back to looking at D and like what I see.
> I've mostly been looking at it on Linux where it seems 
> efficient and stable.
>
> [...]

A MingW version of GDC can be found here: 
http://botcode.net/gdc-5.2.0+2.066.1.7z
It seems to work most of the time.
> trace, and sometimes it just hangs. Occasionally if I move and 
> rearrange the code it will manage to compile it. There are also 
> worrying comments on the LDC web page about how "Most programs 
> work just fine" and "Several unit tests still fail" and stuff 
> about it relying on stuff from visual c++ in order to work that 
> make me seriously doubt it's stability and correctness.
>
> [...]