Install DMD on ChatGPT

[jmh530]

On Tuesday, 27 January 2026 at 02:19:29 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2026 at 02:03:40 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> A recent thread on hacker news [1] indicated that it is 
>> possible to call a C compiler on ChatGPT. It looks like it is 
>> also possible to install DMD on ChatGPT [2]. Might make it 
>> give you better answers if you tell it to check any code by 
>> running it on DMD before showing you.
>>
>> [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221
>> [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774541
>
> I strongly suggest just running qwen locally, it does radically 
> improve preformence for normal errors(the compiler says "did 
> you mean to import std.string?" chat bots can go "why use I 
> did, let me import that") its worthless at templates but thats 
> to be expected.

I'm honestly not familiar with qwen.

>
> Getting it into the online chatbots means a) convincing them d 
> is important b) shipping an offical docker c) bugging them to 
> keep them up to date. I doubt its worth the fight. Its just 
> going to be agent ai on your machine, with all your files and 
> tools you wish; convincing google or mircosoft to run your code 
> on tier cloud is just more work then my own 100 line cli tool. 
> The chat bots do annoying things of limiting what file types 
> you can upload or making it a 1 at a time interface or making 
> more then 3 files paid; just no, unnecessary complexity.

 From the second link, all you have to do is put the DMD .deb file 
in the ChatGPT chatbox and tell it to install it. Maybe they will 
restrict it in the future, but it works for now.

That being said, I'm sympathetic to your general point about 
running it locally.

And I'll reiterate what I've said previously that I'm under no 
delusion about the capabilities of these chatbots. They've gotten 
better over the past year, but I still get bad answers for 
difficult questions.