Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[Seb]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 16:17:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0000, Russel Winder via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +0000, Benny via Digitalmars-d 
>> wrote:
>> > 
>> […]
>> > Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not 
>> > introduces issues. Currently there are 3 compilers but also 
>> > 3 different ways to install ( depending on the platform ). 
>> > DMD has a installer, LDC needs a manual copy job + path 
>> > creation, GDC did not even bother with ( sorry ).
>> 
>> For me:
>> 
>> aptitude install ldc
>> aptitude install gdc
>> aptitude install dmd-bin
>> aptitude install dub
>> 
>> Seems to work fine, and no conflicts.
> [...]
>
> Only because the OS has a sane packaging system (and some 
> people were kind enough to package the compilers in nice 
> packages). For less-privileged OSes, the user experience could 
> be drastically different. ;-)
>
>
> T

curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
~/dlang/install.sh ldc
~/dlang/install.sh gdc

Works on all Posix systems
Now to use LDC as default:

. ~/dlang/install.sh -a ldc


Didn't we have this discussion yesterday already?
See also: https://dlang.org/install.html