D needs to get its shit together!

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:02:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>
> The culture is shaped a bit by C/C++ world, but actually I 
> disagree with Joakim that D is a low-level language.  I don't 
> really use it that way myself, and others before me - including 
> Liran at Weka (who is pretty low-level when he needs to be) - 
> have observed that D has qualities of a compiled Python.  And 
> people who use it like the latter are a bit accustomed to 
> comfort, and so it's a bit of a shock when for exaple someone 
> comes from C# or Python on Windows and wants to install zeromq 
> and realises (or worse, doesn't) they have to build the C 
> library themselves on Windows when they never even heard of 
> cmake before.

I think there is scope for a D version of something like anaconda 
for python. The easier it is to get users up and running, the 
better.