The issue with D...

[Andre Pany]

On Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 13:18:08 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 12:11:56 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>
>> Also look forward to the future when you don't need to install 
>> Visual Studio to get the linker as it will ship with DMD (If 
>> it doesn't already? It's been a while since I've checked.)
>
> It is. But there is another problem. D is a SYSTEM programming 
> language, not just some productivity language. It means there 
> is still dependency on the system libs! Heck, even Rust given 
> up with jemalloc in favor of system allocator by default, if 
> this says something...
> Of course the problem with packaging the libs with compiler 
> installation can be solved by using same approach MinGW did, 
> like people say, or even using the MinGW libs if it is possible.

Mingw libs and headers are also included in recent dmd. Except of 
rare cases you may not need anymore to install vs or build tools.

Kind regards
Andre