[OT] D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 09:02:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 08:33:26 UTC, Vladimir 
> Panteleev wrote:
>> UIs where each key press launches a command (e.g. magit, 
>> background builds...)
>
> emacs?

Yep.

> Also doesn't dmdfe spend most of its time in semantic analysis?

Yep, but this isn't restricted to D, of course. More complicated 
build systems do a lot of I/O (and, often, unnecessary sync()ing).