[OT] Windows dying

[bauss]

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
>> There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the 
>> messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows is 
>> dying, it is all pure useless trolling the people who ask a 
>> simple questions: How to solve the D 64bit issue so that like 
>> on the Linux or OSx platform, the users can have the SAME 
>> level of consistency.
>
> Windows 32 bit is the special one - it is the ONLY platform 
> where D works out of the box without additional downloads. 
> That's one reason why I advocate it for just playing around - 
> it just works.
>

Yes i works when toying around, but as soon as you want to write 
actual software then you can't write 32 bit anymore, because 
OPTLINK is just too buggy and will end up not being able to link 
your code correctly.

A good example is that mysql-native currently don't link properly 
with OPTLINK. It might link for some, but at least for me; I'm 
forced to either use an older compiler or compile to 64 bit.

See:
https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/issues/100

There's also reported issues like this one:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15183

I'm aware that issues like these should be reported more often 
and as soon as they're discovered, but they're also hard to 
report, because you get virtually no information about what's 
wrong and you can only guess by commenting out sections of your 
code until it will link.

That's not ideal.

I'm sure many other similar issues exists.

Yes, 32 bit development with D is easy on Windows, but only for 
toying around; which is no reason to defend it.