On Friday, 27 October 2017 at 05:20:05 UTC, codephantom wrote:

That's it!

I've had enough!

4 hours wasted!

Please try getting some editors going for D on Windows like Visual Studio Code or Atom. That time wasted will skyrocket even more when you run into one of the many issues.

Linux installation is not much better.

Brew ... took a hour to install but only had dmd not dub for some reason.

The install script on the website:

curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd

Well, that forces people to use:

source ~/dlang/dmd-2.076.1/activate

Each time they want to work with D. And it does not play nice with WSL because it never gets loaded so trying to access dmd from outside the WSL does not work.

Download the Ubuntu/Debian deb file ... well, you better have google near you. How hard is it to have "sudo dpkg -i DEB_PACKAGE" as a instruction clearly on the website instead of only the deb file link... :)

Or write in clear way simply:

wget http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.076.1/dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i dmd_2.076.1-0_amd64.deb