Note from a donor

[Joakim]

On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 10:21:22 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> To conclude: if D wants to cater to that crowd, it will have to 
> bite the bullet and make the Windows experience even smoother 
> than it is now. You won't overcome Windows dev's Stockholm 
> syndrome otherwise and Windows devs, should also peg down a 
> little bit and learn that MS's way of doing things is far from 
> being ideal (bloat, loss of control, changing specs every 3 
> years, programmed obsolescence (Active-X anyone?)).

Or better yet, don't bother with a dying platform full of whiny 
devs who are helpless without an IDE.  One of D's strengths is 
that it isn't architected for IDE-driven development and the 
oft-resulting verbosity, that's a market D should probably just 
leave alone.  Instead, focus on the current major platform which 
lets you use almost any toolchain you want:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/xgiwhblmkvcgnsktjnoo@forum.dlang.org

Of course, it is admirable what Rainer and others do to maintain 
VisualD and other D tools for the Windows platform.  I just don't 
see it mattering much in the next decade.