D is a great language, but I've had a bad experience getting started

[Renato]

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:59:04 UTC, Hipreme wrote:
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>
> Yeah, D has a really bad experience in MacOS. If you want to 
> use it on mac, I suggest using LDC. And the package managers 
> doesn't do D justice. You want to get the zip and setup the 
> environment variables yourself, this is the best way to make it 
> work.
>
> The "D recommended way" to install is by using the install.sh 
> script, found at https://dlang.org/install.html
>

Thanks for letting me know! It's good to have other's 
perspectives. Hope your game engine is coming along nicely :)

Looks like I got it working with the overly complicated Ubuntu 
instructions (I used snap instead before because it was just 
"snap install dmd" rather than 5 large shell commands!)... if 
that still gives me trouble I will stick with the sh file you've 
linked (there were so many options for installing the compilers 
and I had to pick the worst one I suppose).