D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 18:04:05 UTC, fdjfgj wrote:
> On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 16:59:56 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2016 08:44 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>>
>>> have their windows system partition on a smallish SSD.
>>
>> Well, in all honestly, that IS going to cause problems 
>> regardless. The larger SSDs are fine (enough) for a phone, but 
>> for a PC that's used for anything more than the average joe's 
>> web/email/word combo, SSDs are still far too small.
>>
>> I still have an "old fashioned" HDD-only in my PC (a laptop): 
>> dirt-cheap: <$100 for 1TB (try to find an SSD that remotely 
>> compares), and the ONLY time I ever have speed issues in 
>> either Win or Lin is when I'm running far too much crap and 
>> start hitting virtual memory swapping (or when some badly 
>> coded program soaks up all the CPU recourses, but SSDs cant 
>> help with that anyway).
>
> In 2005 a 250Gb magnetic HDD costed the same as nowadays 250Gb 
> SSD.

In 2005 I had no wife nor kids, so I could put whatever I fancied 
in my PC, now I have other priorities. At work, I have only a 
very small influence on what goes into my workstation. I'm even 
one of the super duper priviledged, I have an i3 with 8GiB (took 
me one year to be upgraded to that), a 128GB  SSD, a 250GB 
platter and local admin rights (that I have to renew every year 
with a 2 page form with justifications why I need such fancy 
stuff).