This is why I don't use D.

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On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 14:39:39 UTC, RhyS wrote:
> This is the same reason why D with Code-D on Windows was a 
> total disaster. You install VSC+CodeD. It breaks because some 
> dependency library somewhere was not updated for DMD xx.0, 
> because D broke/changed something again. Contact the author, 
> ... wait for a official fix for weeks.

Not to long ago one had to wait for months for a fix.
In the meantime, VisualD and DMD broke because of a VS update.
Good old times 2017 :P

But it got better. I can't remember that I ever had a problem 
compiling one of the libdparse tools since then.