On Saturday, 24 October 2020 at 00:00:02 UTC, starcanopy wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:48:33 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 20:21:39 UTC, aberba wrote:
On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 18:01:19 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
[...]
Not saying Kinke SHOULD do it. Was rather disagreeing with
the idea that "developers" don't use installers. And that's a
shortcoming with the LDC project...no straightforward way to
set it up on Windows using an installer. If visuald supports
LDC, why not point people to it.
[...]
I agree with this. Not providing an installer gives the
message that you're not that interested in people using it.
That's an exaggeration. Every release is accompanied by
binaries that one may easily retrieve. Setting up the
dependencies is only done once, and if you're a Windows
developer, such an environment most likely exists, and you'll
likely only have to add the bin to your path. It's my
understanding that there are few people regularly working on
LDC; allocating (voluntary!) manpower to a nice but
non-essential component doesn't seem wise.
Yes, but if you want to spread D to the world, you might have to
lower the effort in using it as much as possible.
Ok, I'm comparing to the experience of like top 20 languages,
sure. But why not dream big ey? 🚀
