[OT] Windows dying

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
> There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the 
> messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows is 
> dying, it is all pure useless trolling the people who ask a 
> simple questions: How to solve the D 64bit issue so that like 
> on the Linux or OSx platform, the users can have the SAME level 
> of consistency.

Windows 32 bit is the special one - it is the ONLY platform where 
D works out of the box without additional downloads. That's one 
reason why I advocate it for just playing around - it just works.

On ALL other platforms for dmd: Win64, Linux 32/64, Mac, freebsd, 
you require additional downloads from the OS vendor to build your 
program.

The only difference is size of the download from the OS vendor, 
and odds that it was already installed by something else. But it 
is the same idea - you use the OS vendor's linker and system libs 
to facilitate interoperability with other language code.