D needs to get its shit together!

Mike B Johnson via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 17 05:03:58 PDT 2017


On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 08:27:33 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan 
wrote:
> On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 03:53:18 UTC, Mike B Johnson wrote:
>> When a new user goes to start using D for the first time, D is 
>> a PITA to get working! Don't believe me?!?!
>
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux (testing). Here's the installation 
> process for the 3 major D compilers.
>
> $ apt install gdc
> $ gdc my_first_program.d
>
> GDC is too old for you? Fine, let's use ldc:
>
> $ apt install ldc
> $ ldc2 my_first_program.d
>
> Or if you want the bleeding edge version of D:
>
> (download dmd .deb package from dlang.org)
> $ dpkg -i dmd_*******.deb
> $ rdmd my_first_program.d
>
> Debian maintainers, one word: Thank you!

Sorry, doesn't help me or people in general. Also, simple 
examples are not proof that the solutions are general. It may be 
that easy on linux or it may not be, but it's definitely not that 
case on windows FOR almost ALL installations.





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