On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 02:33:35 UTC, Computermatronic
wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:26:54 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:08:54 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:25:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Most programmers will one day be coding on mobile devices,
though I admit I'm in a small, early-adopting minority now:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/six-weeks-working-android/
A blog post is not evidence that the majority of programmers
will be coding on mobile devices.
Yes, but it is evidence of what I said, that "I'm in a small,
early-adopting minority now." I don't know how you expect
evidence for something that _will_ happen, it's a prediction
I'm making, though based on current, rising trends like all
those in this feed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/termux
Can we please get back on topic please?
Yes, it is as simple as changing the topic up top back to the
original, like I have now and you didn't, and discussing
something else. You don't have to read messages that were marked
as OT, like mine were, nobody's making you.
Whether or not windows is 'dying' is irrelevant, since it is
not going to die out as a development platform for at least the
next 5 years.
I, like many other windows users, want to be able to compile
64bit binaries in windows, without having to download and
install the bloated and time consuming to download and install
Visual Studio.
I do most of my programming in Sublime Text, and frequently
re-install windows. This may not be the case for many windows
users of D, but clearly many windows users of D would like to
be able to compile x64 out of the box.
I was intrigued by someone saying in this thread that Go supports
Win64 COFF out of the box, so I just tried it out in wine and
indeed it works with their hello world example. Running "go
build -x" shows that they ship a link.exe for Win64 with their
Win64 zip, guess it's the Mingw one?
If you want something similar for the D compiler packages for
Win64, I suggest you file a bugzilla issue, as that's where the
core team and other D devs look for stuff to do:
https://issues.dlang.org
The more info you have about the linker Go is using, the better.
Best if you just submit a pull request for dmd or its installer,
making it use this other linker so that VS is not needed:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pulls
https://github.com/dlang/installer/pulls
D is a community effort, pitch in to make the things you want
happen.
