How to use D on M2 macOS?

[IchorDev]

On Monday, 21 July 2025 at 17:21:58 UTC, Albert wrote:
> Though I do think D could do so much better with onboarding 
> first time users...

I think it's not entirely fair to say that, given that your issue 
was mostly that (1) you downloaded a compiler that doesn't fully 
support your native CPU architecture (albeit, probably because 
the dlang.org homepage presents DMD as the default download to 
macOS users), and (2) encountered a recently-fixed bug because 
you were using an outdated compiler version.
However, you also have to realise that the active D community is 
very, very small. And even fewer people actually contribute to 
dlang.org/Dub/DMD/DRuntime; while LDC2 and GDC are essentially 
single-person projects. The most active contributors are D 
veterans, and are often a bit blind to a first-time user's 
perception of things. However, until many new people adopt the 
language and speak up about difficulties they've had with getting 
started (like you have in this thread) small first-time 
user-experience issues may persist indefinitely.