On Sunday, 18 June 2017 at 21:02:40 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
The culture is shaped a bit by C/C++ world, but actually I disagree with Joakim that D is a low-level language. I don't really use it that way myself, and others before me - including Liran at Weka (who is pretty low-level when he needs to be) - have observed that D has qualities of a compiled Python. And people who use it like the latter are a bit accustomed to comfort, and so it's a bit of a shock when for exaple someone comes from C# or Python on Windows and wants to install zeromq and realises (or worse, doesn't) they have to build the C library themselves on Windows when they never even heard of cmake before.
I think there is scope for a D version of something like anaconda for python. The easier it is to get users up and running, the better.
