D Lang installation on Windows, dependency on Visual Studio?

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On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 17:19:28 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
>> Another issue I had with the Microsoft Package besides the 
>> size it wants on the system drive is the difficulty to even 
>> get it to download behind a corporate proxy.

Doesn't it pick whatever is configured in the system settings?

>> makes a checklist of + and - points for a language (just a 
>> semi-related question, what's the state of play in the 
>> concurrent languages go, rust, scala etc...?)

They probably don't depend on C runtime as much.
Scala?

> Ok, I checked for Rust. They have 2 ABI versions one with MSVC 
> and the other for gcc in 32 and 64 bits. MSVC ABI requires the 
> same build tools from Microsoft, so the situation is the same 
> there.

LDC once supported mingw, but it broke. Most stuff should be 
still there.