D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[AB via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 11:28:16 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 10:31:23 UTC, AB wrote:
>> Are there plans to write a homebrew 64-bit linker for DMD?
>
> There are already ld from mingw and lld from llvm team.

Why aren't they used and distributed in DMD for Windows by 
default?

If the tools mentioned above (LD and LLD) are available and 
usable on Windows x64 instead of the ones provided in heavily 
bloated packages by Microsoft, how come the DMD installer for 
Windows doesn't offer them as an alternative (or better yet as 
the default)?