Windows experience is atrocious

[harakim]

On Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 18:28:12 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 July 2023 at 16:22:47 UTC, Rumbu wrote:
>> Long time D user here (from D1 era). I said to come back after 
>> two years to see how things evolved in the meantime.
>>
>> Here is my Windows experience:
>
> You have the advantage of being a longtime Windows user. I've 
> given up on Windows support for anything I share. It's just too 
> difficult. The Linux experience is really, really easy, and it 
> would be nice if the Windows experience was just as easy. This 
> would be a good opportunity for the D Language Foundation to 
> step in (and with a solid plan, raise some money).
>
> Among other things, with a good Windows experience, I could 
> write R packages in D and share them on Github. It's kind of 
> useless to do that until setting up a Windows development 
> environment is straightforward for someone that's not a 
> professional software developer.

It's interesting you both have problems. I have installed D on 
windows probably 10 times and never had an issue. If someone can 
repro, I would like to watch them repro so I can figure out 
what's going on. I would not mind coming up with a fix to make it 
simple.