[OT] D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 17:31:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> I don't really use emacs, and (thought I admit I'm not 100% 
> certain), I don't think much of what I use launches (or at 
> least needs to launch) separate commands for each keypress 
> (sounds like bad software engineering to me, but that's just my 
> gut impression, maybe I'm wrong).

As the threshold of what performance is acceptable rises, so do 
the possibilities. Things that sounded like bad engineering years 
ago can be considered perfectly acceptable today (e.g. why go 
through the effort of integrating something by writing a library 
and inventing an API, if you can just spawn processes for every 
operation at negligible cost, and greatly lower development and 
maintenance effort). Granted, certainly not everything will 
benefit from I/O performance, but a lot of things do.

> That does remind me though: Are hybrid drives still a thing? 
> They sounded like a good idea (at least for laptops, where you 
> can usually only have one internal drive),

Ah, I missed that you were talking in the context of a laptop. 
One thing to note is that as optical disk drives become less 
useful, dual-HDD laptops are more common. I've also seen some 
models (ThinkPads, IIRC?) with a small amount of on-board flash 
memory that can be used as a cache. Caching with two drives can 
also be done in software (bcache/lvmcache), though if you have 
two drives, IMO it's simpler to separate the data yourself.