On my Arch linux, it is really easy to install D. pacaur -Sy dlang // install dmd, ldc, and some other d tools pacaur -Sy visual-studio-code // install visual studio code, then I just install plugins from vscode
So I can't see how this could be easier On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Bo via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 05:20:05 UTC, codephantom wrote: > >> That's it! >> >> I've had enough! >> >> 4 hours wasted! >> > > Please try getting some editors going for D on Windows like Visual Studio > Code or Atom. That time wasted will skyrocket even more when you run into > one of the many issues. > > Linux installation is not much better. > > Brew ... took a hour to install but only had dmd not dub for some reason. > > The install script on the website: > > curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd > > Well, that forces people to use: > > source ~/dlang/dmd-2.076.1/activate > > Each time they want to work with D. And it does not play nice with WSL > because it never gets loaded so trying to access dmd from outside the WSL > does not work. > > Download the Ubuntu/Debian deb file ... well, you better have google near > you. How hard is it to have "sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE" as a instruction > clearly on the website instead of only the deb file link... :) > > Or write in clear way simply: > > wget http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.076.1/dmd_2.076.1- > 0_amd64.deb > sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb >