On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 15:18:07 UTC, Mengu wrote:
with mac os x, we have to download gbs of command line tools
library before getting started with any development. if we want
to build anything for ios or mac we have to download 5gb xcode.
with a fast internet, you get that in a matter of minutes. i
don't believe that should be a show stopper or maybe i am
missing your point.
Yeah..sadly, we don't have fast internet here in Australia.
1GB takes about an hour (presuming house mate not online ;-)
And I have a typically average connection.
Just the build tools alone (without the VS IDE and stuff), took
almost 4 hours for me to download. And all I wanted to do, was
compile some D code into a 64bit binary.
If I were on a mobile wireless internet connection, my next bill
would send me into bankruptcy! (lucky I'm on landline connection).
I guess if it took seconds, I'd have a bit less to complain about
;-)
But if you really are missing my point..then let me state it more
clearly...
(1) I don't like waiting 4 hours to download gigabytes of crap I
don't actually want, but somehow need (if I want to compile 64bit
D that is).
(2)I like to have choice.
A fast internet might help with (1).
(2) seems out of reach (and that's why I dont' and won't be using
D on Windows ;-)
(being a recreational programmer, I have that luxury..I
understand that others do not, but that's no reason for 'some' to
dismiss my concerns as irrelevant. They're relavent to me, and
that's all that matters ;-)
