Windows experience is atrocious

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 7/20/23 12:22 PM, 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:

I think you suffer from having already-installed D stuff, or some unique 
environment that the installer is tripping on. Probably some bug that 
can be filed there. Installing from scratch is usually easier.

However, I do agree that the Windows experience (especially including an 
IDE) could be more curated.

Here was my instructions for installing DMD/VSCode on Windows that I 
used for my homeschool class: https://codingcat.club/d_installation.html

I wish it was just "run this exe". to be fair, the DMD installer now 
asks you to install some version of Visual Studio, and I think even can 
work without it (wasn't true back when I wrote the instructions).

> OK, I know, there is VisualD, but install process is still complicated.

VisualD means you are willing to switch to that build system and not use 
dub. I've never used it because of that.

VSCode with code-d is a pretty good experience (except for debugging on 
Windows).

-Steve