Note from a donor

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 21:11:37 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>
> In general I agree with you that coff is the way to go. I just 
> dislike the consequences. Today you just download the dmd 
> Windows zip, extract it and you have a running compiler. Nice, 
> self contained and a good advertisement for D. On the other 
> side if the user is forced to install Visual Studio / C++ build 
> pack, this might distract first time D users...
>
> If the Microsoft linker could be added to dmd that would be the 
> best solution. Just dreaming :)
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

I'm sympathetic to your point.

I think there was/is some effort to allow LLD (the LLVM linker) 
as a replacement for the MSVC linker in LDC. Perhaps if LLD could 
be a drop-in for MSVC in DMD for Windows, then eventually it 
could be the default? Not sure that's possible or not.