On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 22:26:51 UTC, RBfromME wrote:
I'm a newbie to programming and have been looking into the D lang as a general purposing language to learn, yet the D overview indicates that java would be a better language to learn for your first programming language. Why? Looks like D is easier than Java...
The Overview page is ancient and needs to be rewritten. The included example sieve program reflects this. It's almost C (you'd only need to make minor changes to 4 of the lines to make it build with gcc). I'd agree that C probably isn't a good first language. The overview also suggests learning BASIC first which also shows just how old the Overview is (where do you even get a BASIC compiler these days?).
There are easier languages but modern, idiomatic D is perfectly approachable for beginners in my opinion.
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13624
