D needs to get its shit together!

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 14:40:42 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Friday, 16 June 2017 at 13:30:21 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, maybe D is not meant for the kind of user 
>> who needs such an easy path.  What does it matter if you set D 
>> up really easily and then can't grasp such a sprawling, 
>> lower-level language?  Perhaps _this_ is the right packaging 
>> for D right now, to keep away the kinds of casual users who 
>> would not be suited for D.
>>
>
> Today I agree with that, but in 1-2 years when mir/lubeck are 
> in better shape I'm probably going to disagree. Hoping someone 
> packages something together like an Anaconda for D that just 
> easily works.

What's missing from Lubeck that you would like to see?

Wrt Anaconda for D - it's the native code (C) libraries that are 
the biggest pain point.  Same thing as with Python really.

So I wonder if we could figure out a way to host build 
configuration and build itself for the C libraries underlying dub 
bindings and wrappers.  It's really a Windows-specific problem, 
because even today there doesn't seem to be a great answer.  I 
played with chocolatey a bit, but it doesn't always seem to be 
that helpful in practice.