Note from a donor

[Jerry]

On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 14:43:38 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> I explicitly mentioned that I did *******NOT******* want VS 
> installed.

So? If you don't want to use it, then don't use D, or don't use 
Windows. There's simple solution to your problem. Rust requires 
VS, you can't build on Windows without it. It's not that big of a 
deal to require. If you don't want to use it, then go ahead, D is 
open source see how easy it is to replace with something else.

> The majority of time spent was downloading the damn thing!

Again with the size issue, 3.5 GB isn't that big of a file. Start 
the download and go do something, time management is a skill. You 
don't have to sit there and watch it download, even if you have 
shitty internet.