Windows experience is atrocious

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Monday, 24 July 2023 at 01:01:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 July 2023 at 15:29:45 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>
>> I think even can work without it (wasn't true back when I 
>> wrote the instructions).
>
> If true, that would be a good step forward. My memories of 
> installing on Windows involved a petabyte of Visual Studio 
> downloads followed by configuration issues that I didn't know 
> or care to know how to fix.

dmd on Windows has never required Visual Studio, though the 
installer would really push you toward it since it was better for 
a while - more compatible 32 bit with other libraries and 64 bit 
linking support - but you didn't technically NEED those, and both 
of these are now supported by the bundle standing alone.

If you just take the dmd zip and use it in place, things just 
work.