Note from a donor

[bitwise]

On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 22:19:59 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 October 2017 at 21:11:37 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> [...]
>
> 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.

VC++ command line tools seem to be available on their own:

http://landinghub.visualstudio.com/visual-cpp-build-tools