Note from a donor

[12345swordy]

On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 18:52:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> 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.

What makes you think that windows is a "dying platform"!? There 
is no evidence to suggest this.