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

Tue Feb 6 02:41:59 UTC 2018

On 02/01/2018 11:17 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>
>> 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. ;-)
> 

Extracting the archive and just...using the compiler inside...always 
worked fine for me on every Windows and Linux I ever tried.