Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 07:44:22 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I've never understood this. DMD started out on Windows 
> exclusively. Linux and other platforms came later. It has a 
> Windows installer that will find the MS tools if you need to 
> use them, the zip package works out of the box, the compiler 
> ships with a minimal (and admittedly outdated) set of Win32 
> libraries that work with OPTLINK... Where does this impression 
> come from that Windows is a second-class citizen?

The Windows build for DMD, etc. seems to require tools that 
Microsoft no longer distributes publicly. I asked about this, but 
no one replied...
     
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lzmnllscqyyuqlusrwwe@forum.dlang.org