On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 04:55:00 UTC, Curious Observer wrote:
Compare with rust:

1. Download installer
2. Run it, no user interaction except pressing Enter
3. Launch VSCode
4. Extensions/rust-analyzer
5. cargo new hello
6. rust-analyzer/run -> ok
7. rust-analyzer/debug/run -> ok

source\arsd\simpledisplay.d(6445,51): Deprecation: using `in ref` is deprecated, use `-preview=in` and `in` instead
...
source\arsd\http2.d(3567,17): Error: function `void arsd.http2.OpenSslSocket.close()` does not override any function, did you mean to override `nothrow @nogc scope @trusted void std.socket.Socket.close()`?
Error C:\Program Files\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe failed with exit code 1.

On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 05:29:16 UTC, Rumbu wrote:

Basically exactly the same for D, you are doing something wrong.

6. dub run --build=release
7. dub run

The only thing is that smartscreen requires you to click that "details" button and manually allow it to run the installer because it is "reputation" based filter and there is few people using D compared to rust.

On Friday, 21 July 2023 at 06:14:16 UTC, evilrat wrote:

Nope, I am asked if I want to replace my 2.041 version with 2.041 version :)
And if I go on, it still pretends that I don't have VS 2019 installed.

And nope also for VSCode experience. I don't touch the terminal. All is done from VSCode command palette/user interface. And step 7 is about debugging (e.g. set a breakpoint, inspect locals, call stack and so on).

Long time D user here (from D1 era). I said to come back after two years to see how things evolved in the meantime.

Here is my Windows experience:

Long time D user here (from D1 era). I said to come back after two years to see how things evolved in the meantime.

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Long time D user here (from D1 era). I said to come back after two years to see how things evolved in the meantime.

Here is my Windows experience:

1. Downloaded DMD installer.
2. Cannot run, blocked by AppLocker, IOC blacklisted
3. Added to exception list
4. Cannot run, blocked by Windows SmartScreen
5. Bypass
6. You have DMD 2.090 installed, replace it? Yes
7. Failed, installer said run dmd-2.104.2.exe /f
8. Looking in cpanel to see if I an older version of D is installed. Nope.
9. Found an old folder with D. Deleted it.
10. Going to command prompt into downloads folder
11. Running dmd-2.104.2.exe /f
12. Error, an instance of DMD is already running.
13. Looking through my processes, there is no such thing
14. Running dmd-2.104.2.exe /f again. It works!
15. You don't have VS Tools 2019 installed. I have. 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022
16. Ignore and go on.
17. Launch VSCode
18. Install code-d, C++ already installed
19. Create a new project
20. Run tasks - Run -> dub cannot be initialized
21. Go to code.dlang.org
22. Click on Download -> redirect to github/releases
23. WTF, only source code.
24. building Dub from source
25. Added manually to PATH
26. Go back to VSCode
27. Edit dub.json, adding target ./bin/hello.exe
28. Build Task, dub-auto - Run hello, ok
29. Build Task, dub-auto - Build hello -> config -> edit tasks.json
30. Documentation says that I should have a dub template. Nope, I have a CMake template.
31. Too complicated. Close VSCode, posting on forum :)

OK, I know, there is VisualD, but install process is still complicated.

I am very surprised you had this many issues, I helped a coworker of mine who is not a programmer go through the installation and didnt have any problems, just normal installation stuff, like clicking on what you want installed etc.. I am going to install the latest version right now and see what the steps are again,
but to reiterate I did switch to a scripting language for my work because I didnt want to help like 10 people install D but I got my scripts down to zero installation which is always better than any installation. so until D is zero installation it can still get better.