On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 00:10:46 UTC, Xinok wrote:
> Again, specific examples would help. Often, when newcomers detail the trouble they encountered during their first experience with D, one or more people will get to work fixing or alleviating the specific issues they mention.

Not the op,but stack traces with line numbers would be nice.

On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 23:56:53 UTC, Prudence wrote:
> 1. The setup is a much compared to most modern day compilers and software.

The most inappropriately kept secret of installing dmd is that you don't have to. Just unzip it and use it in-place.

> 2. The error messages in D are horrendous.

You mean compile time or runtime or both?

> the more complex code the more crypographic the errors are.

Ever since the Snowden revelations, I've endeavored to use cryptography more often. :) hehe j/k

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 20:20:14 UTC, Freddy wrote:
> Not the op,but stack traces with line numbers would be nice.

I know how to do it but there's only so many free code hours in the week :(

You can look up one line at a time though with the addr2line utility on Linux. Copy/paste the address to it and it will give you a line number.

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 03:26:50 UTC, David DeWitt wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 23:56:53 UTC, Prudence wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I think D is about as easy to install as anything. But then again I dont use Windows so I dont have 99.9% of the hassles that come along with that.  Since you didnt provide any examples it is kinda hard to fix but we can guess at your problems so my solution would be:
>
> Wipe Windows
> Install Arch
> Install vim
> Install DMD.
>
> Problem solved :)

Considering the OP struggles with installing DMD and VisualD, I don't think recommending Arch Linux is a good idea...

On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 15:55:00 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 03:26:50 UTC, David DeWitt wrote:
>> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 23:56:53 UTC, Prudence wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think D is about as easy to install as anything. But then again I dont use Windows so I dont have 99.9% of the hassles that come along with that.  Since you didnt provide any examples it is kinda hard to fix but we can guess at your problems so my solution would be:
>>
>> Wipe Windows
>> Install Arch
>> Install vim
>> Install DMD.
>>
>> Problem solved :)
>
> Considering the OP struggles with installing DMD and VisualD, I don't think recommending Arch Linux is a good idea...

We have no idea what OP has trouble with because Op did not tell.

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 22:14:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 23:56:53 UTC, Prudence wrote:
>> 1. The setup is a much compared to most modern day compilers and software.
>
> The most inappropriately kept secret of installing dmd is that you don't have to. Just unzip it and use it in-place.

That's how other compilers like gcc and clang are installed too. It's a pretty established tradition.