Note from a donor

[Joakim]

On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 02:33:35 UTC, Computermatronic 
wrote:
> On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:26:54 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:08:54 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:25:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Most programmers will one day be coding on mobile devices, 
>>>> though I admit I'm in a small, early-adopting minority now:
>>>>
>>>> http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/six-weeks-working-android/
>>>>
>>>
>>> A blog post is not evidence that the majority of programmers 
>>> will be coding on mobile devices.
>>
>> Yes, but it is evidence of what I said, that "I'm in a small, 
>> early-adopting minority now."  I don't know how you expect 
>> evidence for something that _will_ happen, it's a prediction 
>> I'm making, though based on current, rising trends like all 
>> those in this feed:
>>
>> https://mobile.twitter.com/termux
>
> Can we please get back on topic please?

Yes, it is as simple as changing the topic up top back to the 
original, like I have now and you didn't, and discussing 
something else.  You don't have to read messages that were marked 
as OT, like mine were, nobody's making you.

> Whether or not windows is 'dying' is irrelevant, since it is 
> not going to die out as a development platform for at least the 
> next 5 years.
>
> I, like many other windows users, want to be able to compile 
> 64bit binaries in windows, without having to download and 
> install the bloated and time consuming to download and install 
> Visual Studio.
>
> I do most of my programming in Sublime Text, and frequently 
> re-install windows. This may not be the case for many windows 
> users of D, but clearly many windows users of D would like to 
> be able to compile x64 out of the box.

I was intrigued by someone saying in this thread that Go supports 
Win64 COFF out of the box, so I just tried it out in wine and 
indeed it works with their hello world example.  Running "go 
build -x" shows that they ship a link.exe for Win64 with their 
Win64 zip, guess it's the Mingw one?

If you want something similar for the D compiler packages for 
Win64, I suggest you file a bugzilla issue, as that's where the 
core team and other D devs look for stuff to do:

https://issues.dlang.org

The more info you have about the linker Go is using, the better.  
Best if you just submit a pull request for dmd or its installer, 
making it use this other linker so that VS is not needed:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls
https://github.com/dlang/installer/pulls

D is a community effort, pitch in to make the things you want 
happen.