D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/14/2016 01:04 PM, fdjfgj wrote:
> On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 16:59:56 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On 11/14/2016 08:44 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>>>
>>> have their windows system partition on a smallish SSD.
>>
>> Well, in all honestly, that IS going to cause problems regardless. The
>> larger SSDs are fine (enough) for a phone, but for a PC that's used
>> for anything more than the average joe's web/email/word combo, SSDs
>> are still far too small.
>>
>> I still have an "old fashioned" HDD-only in my PC (a laptop):
>> dirt-cheap: <$100 for 1TB (try to find an SSD that remotely compares),
>> and the ONLY time I ever have speed issues in either Win or Lin is
>> when I'm running far too much crap and start hitting virtual memory
>> swapping (or when some badly coded program soaks up all the CPU
>> recourses, but SSDs cant help with that anyway).
>
> In 2005 a 250Gb magnetic HDD costed the same as nowadays 250Gb SSD.

Eh? 2005 has nothing to do with anything.

In 2016, magnetic HDDs are not purchased at 2005 prices.

In 2016, a 250GB magnetic HDD costs vastly less than a 250GB SSD.

In 2016, you can even get a 1TB HDD for less than a 250GB SSD. Even in 2.5".

In 2016, 250GB is quite small as far as general-purpose PC storage goes.

In 2016, I picked up a 5TB USB3 HDD drive for HALF the price of a 1TB SSD.

But most importantly:

In what alternate 2016 reality is a 250GB drive insufficient to be able 
to spare 3Gb to install a core dev tool?