On Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:44:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer has been using D to teach a group of
children to program. He wrote about his experience for the D
blog. Is D a viable first language? See what Steve has to say
about it :-)
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/12/23/teaching-d-from-scratch-is-it-a-viable-first-language/
I have read that Visual D has a better debugging experience,
but I need dub support for these projects, and Visual D focuses
on Visual Studio integration, something I don’t necessarily
want to deal with in teaching these kids
This is truly an understatement about Visual D, the debugging
experience is at par with the native C++ one in VS. If I was a
kid from that group, I would feel tormented by the dub/vscode
experience :) Rainer Schuetze deserves a statue.
