On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
Me: Software developer for 30 years.
So perhaps this is old fashion, but I wanted to start using D
by whipping together nice little personal utilities.
I tried installing MonoDevelop and Mono-D. I can't even figure
out the basics, such as adding references to a project. There
are no options in the context menus, and although it looks like
drag an drop might work (a '+' sign appears by the cursor),
dropping a file from the filesystem doesn't work either.
Although I dream of someday being able to add a reference to a
project, I'm not really sure what I might drag in. I managed
to download and compile GtkD, since it seems like a GUI would
be a nice place to start (again, old fashion). I got three
*.lib files out of it... Hmmmm... Maybe these are references??
I had installed the Visual Studio plugin, but I don't want to
use this since I would like to eventually migrate away from
Windows.
Let me cut to the chase. I have no friggin' clue how to start,
and I can't seem to find a tutorial anywhere...
What IDE should I use? I'm not big fan of Eclipse, although if
I had to use it this wouldn't be a dealbreaker. Give me
something easy and lightweight, unless you've got a GUI builder
(this is why I started with MonoDevelop, though this isn't
working so well for me).
What Widget library should I use? I started with GTKD, but
since there are no tutorials does this mean nobody actually
does this? Should I use DWT? What about QT?
I just want something simple and mainstream to start learning D
with.
Any thoughts?
Mono-D + dub (see code.dlang.org) is the easiest way to get
things working quickly. Mono-D has builtin support for dub.
For learning D, see Ali's book:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html (from scratch) or Andrei's
"The D Programming Language" (for the more experienced). Adam D.
Ruppe's "D Cookbook" also has interesting examples of usage.
