On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 at 05:41:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
What are you stuck at? What was the most difficult features to
understand? etc.
To make it more meaningful, what is your experience with other
languages?
Ali
Hi Ali, thanks for asking.
Coming from C background I had problems with voldemort types. I
kept wanting to know the storage type for items so that I could
use it in interfaces, but that's not as big a deal anymore.
Currently my problem is integration into common tool chains in a
Linux environment. On Linux the common development tools are
built around gcc & gdb. The common package managers are apt and
dnf. Right now I can't compile vibe.d using gdc, and I can't
`apt install vibe-d` So I'd say lack of Linux integration is my
most difficult problem using D.
I'd certainly contribute to a fund that focused on D Linux
usability, namely:
1. Supporting gdc development and distribution.
2. Testing common packages against gdc
3. Updating dub so that it could assist with creating deb and
yum packages
4. Having a standard GUI library (maybe).
These days the language itself is not so much of a concern. The
development days for D2 are long over. What exists is excellent.
I think the central focus should on libraries and integration
with larger ecosystems.
