[OT] Windows dying

[Jerry]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 19:10:50 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Yes i works when toying around, but as soon as you want to 
> write actual software then you can't write 32 bit anymore, 
> because OPTLINK is just too buggy and will end up not being 
> able to link your code correctly.
>
> A good example is that mysql-native currently don't link 
> properly with OPTLINK. It might link for some, but at least for 
> me; I'm forced to either use an older compiler or compile to 64 
> bit.
>
> See:
> https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/issues/100
>
> There's also reported issues like this one:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15183
>
> I'm aware that issues like these should be reported more often 
> and as soon as they're discovered, but they're also hard to 
> report, because you get virtually no information about what's 
> wrong and you can only guess by commenting out sections of your 
> code until it will link.
>
> That's not ideal.
>
> I'm sure many other similar issues exists.
>
> Yes, 32 bit development with D is easy on Windows, but only for 
> toying around; which is no reason to defend it.

You can use -m32mscoff for 32-bit, which uses Visual Studio like 
the 64-bit version. I've been saying OPTLINK should be removed. 
Even if you report a bug for optlink, it's never going to get 
fixed. No one's stupid enough to go digging through that 
spaghetti code dump. If you're luck, some limitation might 
introduced to DMD that won't cause the bug in OPTLINK to trigger. 
That's why it shouldn't be supported anymore, it's hindering DMD, 
not making it better.

It's amazing how many people are so lazy to download Visual 
Studio, and some of the stupidest reason for not wanting to 
download it to boot.