Weak Eco System?

[aberba via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 11:08:00 UTC, ezneh wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 10:48:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Well, I recently tried to get C++ working on windows (Trying to 
> learn it too along with D).
>
> I can say that unless you use Visual Studio, it is a real pain 
> to make any other environment working on it. I can't understand 
> _why_ there are different implementations of the C++ standard 
> library and they are not compatible with every compiler. It's 
> like if LDC, GDC and DMD had their own standard library and 
> "peace out".
>
> It was really a terrible experience. Thankfully, D is really 
> much simpler to get working (if we don't use Visual Studio).

Windows without visual studio generally suck