On Thursday, 11 July 2019 at 13:40:50 UTC, matheus wrote:
Do you think that your libraries could fill this gap for D?
Possibly. So I'm trying to convince my bosses at work to let me
use D on the core product and one of the points I made is that D
is really easy for new devs to use.
Part of my strategy is to bundle everything in one place. You
download this zip and it just works - the compiler is included,
the libs are included, the main code, and even a test database.
They haven't looked at it yet.... but in all my own tests, it
legitimately just works. You can start playing around with it in
a matter of minutes.
I sometimes think about doing basically the same thing for open
source D users too. Package my libs in with the compiler, a
sqlite and openssl binary build so those just work too, and then
some cute examples to get started. I imagine it'd be pretty easy
and since my stuff covers such a broad range - terminal, gui,
game, web, etc. - there'd likely be something fun in there for
anyone.
I even wrote a bunch of basic games as simpledisplay examples:
http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/arsd.simpledisplay.html#pong so a fun little thing to start with there.
I just haven't actually gotten around to trying it.
Just on the other hand, I don't do much marketing at all so even
if it was perfect nobody would know about it lololol
