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

[bachmeier]

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:59:32 UTC, Renato wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 12:30:35 UTC, Renato wrote:
>
>>
>> The other compilers were also easily installable on Kubuntu 
>> using snap.
>>
>
> It seems that the Ubuntu "snap"s are not being updated for a 
> few years??
>
> It seems some of my problems are related to the very old 
> versions I got with snap :(
>
> dub  - 1.19.0 (seems to be from Oct 2020)
> ldc2 - 1.24.0 (seems to be from Oct 2020)
> dmd  - v2.090.1 (Feb 2020)
>
> I feel stupid for choosing snap (I don't use snaps, just felt 
> like a convenient thing to try this time!).
>
> I will try using latest of everything on Linux (on Mac I think 
> I was already fine on latest) and hope it works better.

What's worked for me on Ubuntu is to download the .deb from the 
downloads page and sudo apt install ./dmd_2.106.0-0_amd64.deb. 
Always have the latest release and never have problems.