On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 09:45, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > Well from my point of view the most important outstanding Windows tasks are: > > - help to test, debug, and fix the experimental lld/mingw toolchain > (https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html#lld_mingw) > > Once this is ready for production use it would simplify the Windows > installation and allowed us to drop optlink and OMF.
Is there any reason to believe Walter would accept that? It's come up countless times. He rejects it in principle. https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8347 He genuinely believes OMF+OPTLINK should be the deliberate and preferred default that everyone should be confronted with as their first experience. It clearly improves new users experience with D. Has something changed?