> Anti-virus is bundled with windows. Everyone will have it.

Someone interested in programming in D should be able to disable it and programmers != Everyone

> I wouldn't know how easy it would be to bypass. And in a corporate environment you would not be able to.

I feel like this knowledge is just a google search away and for corporate... If you computers are so locked down that you can't disable the anti-virus they are probably locked down so that you can't install new programs in general. I, for one, would never choose to work for a company that locked down and in that case I feel like you just need to talk to IT to ask them to whitelist it.

All of that said I feel like there is a huge disconnect between the points you are making and the actual population that is trying to use D. Look, I have no clue on the actual install base/user base of D lang but I can't imagine we are talking a "real" number of people having this issue. D doesn't even rank on any of the "Top languages of 2018" lists I found online (that isn't a knock on D, it's just facts) so that coupled with the fact that the vast majority of D developers seem to use non-Windows OS's make this all seem like a lot to do about nothing.

> I, for one, would never choose to work for a company that locked down

Good luck finding a job in banking, government, healthcare, defense, retail, insurance, securities, food, pharmaceutical, or pretty much anything other than social media.

All of these industries are basically forced into “whitelisted software only” by some regulation or another.

I think the size of the company determines this far more than the industry does. I prefer to work for smaller-sized companies or ones that don't treat their employees like children with locked down computers and access. I work in the corrections industry (think ankle bracelet monitoring) and there are no such regulations. In fact I use my personal computer for all my work people it blows the standard equipment out of the water. Even so all our devs have full root on their boxes and install whatever they want.

Also I find it very hard to believe that everyone working at FAANG companies is using a locked down computer.

I for one, never did choose to work for such a company, and yet now I do anyway because my chosen small company was sold to a huge one, after I am 19 years in.

It's almost like that was easier to say than to do.

I'd like to clarify and point out I used the word "choose" very much so on purpose. There are a number of things that would effectively remove this choice from me. If tomorrow I was laid off and I couldn't find anything within a a couple of weeks I'd work at McDonalds to get by but for as long as I have the choice I'm not interested in locked down computers or locked down internet where I work. If I were in your position I'd have to weigh the pros and cons before deciding to look for a new job. You obviously decided the pros outweighed the cons and I don't hold it against you or anyone else.