This is why I don't use D.

[JN]

On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 01:13:37 UTC, 0xEAB wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 14:39:39 UTC, RhyS wrote:
>> This is the same reason why D with Code-D on Windows was a 
>> total disaster. You install VSC+CodeD. It breaks because some 
>> dependency library somewhere was not updated for DMD xx.0, 
>> because D broke/changed something again. Contact the author, 
>> ... wait for a official fix for weeks.
>
> Not to long ago one had to wait for months for a fix.
> In the meantime, VisualD and DMD broke because of a VS update.
> Good old times 2017 :P
>
> But it got better. I can't remember that I ever had a problem 
> compiling one of the libdparse tools since then.

I think the problem is rebuilding the dependency libraries in the 
first place. This is the Linux/macOS way. On Windows, it's 
customary to provide binaries that "just work".