On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:59:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe
wrote:
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:42:07 UTC, Bo wrote:
There is a issue with Windows. The whole attacking the
messenger, the whole idiotic argumentation's that Windows is
dying, it is all pure useless trolling the people who ask a
simple questions: How to solve the D 64bit issue so that like
on the Linux or OSx platform, the users can have the SAME
level of consistency.
Windows 32 bit is the special one - it is the ONLY platform
where D works out of the box without additional downloads.
That's one reason why I advocate it for just playing around -
it just works.
Yes i works when toying around, but as soon as you want to write
actual software then you can't write 32 bit anymore, because
OPTLINK is just too buggy and will end up not being able to link
your code correctly.
A good example is that mysql-native currently don't link properly
with OPTLINK. It might link for some, but at least for me; I'm
forced to either use an older compiler or compile to 64 bit.
See:
https://github.com/mysql-d/mysql-native/issues/100
There's also reported issues like this one:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15183
I'm aware that issues like these should be reported more often
and as soon as they're discovered, but they're also hard to
report, because you get virtually no information about what's
wrong and you can only guess by commenting out sections of your
code until it will link.
That's not ideal.
I'm sure many other similar issues exists.
Yes, 32 bit development with D is easy on Windows, but only for
toying around; which is no reason to defend it.
