On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 at 17:19:28 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
Another issue I had with the Microsoft Package besides the
size it wants on the system drive is the difficulty to even
get it to download behind a corporate proxy.
Doesn't it pick whatever is configured in the system settings?
makes a checklist of + and - points for a language (just a
semi-related question, what's the state of play in the
concurrent languages go, rust, scala etc...?)
They probably don't depend on C runtime as much.
Scala?
Ok, I checked for Rust. They have 2 ABI versions one with MSVC
and the other for gcc in 32 and 64 bits. MSVC ABI requires the
same build tools from Microsoft, so the situation is the same
there.
LDC once supported mingw, but it broke. Most stuff should be
still there.
