After spending hours and hours in a breadth-first scan to learn
me a D, I agree completely with the suggestions in this thread
and I'm happy to help implement them.
Caveats: I'm just now coming up to speed on D and I'm an
engineer, not a tech writer.
I think the biggest needs are:
(1) Improve the home page "Why pick D?" info. The current text
doesn't quite answer. Why switch from your creaky old language?
And if you're switching, why D vs. Rust?
Mention the game-changing plans for optional GC, memory safety,
and calling C++. Then D becomes a clear win in real-time,
safety-critical, and security-critical systems.
(2) Add an introduction for experienced C++/Java programmers. Get
them up to speed quickly and excited about how D is easier,
faster, more fun, more reliable, and un-fsck'd up.
(3) [Easy] Add comparative info to the links to available books,
including the D reference: Aim? Audience? Up to date? Coverage?
Ali's ebook is very nice but for beginning programmers, not me.
(Ali, you might want to say so up front.) Andrei's book is 4.6
years old. How much has D changed? Honestly I'm a slow reader and
will eventually read the spec, so I started reading that. Is that
a rough way to start? Too many forward references? Too abstract?
What'll I miss by not reading a book first (besides Andrei's
humor)?
*If y'all shed light on the books, I'll update the wiki*
http://wiki.dlang.org/Books
Note: This page doesn't jive with
http://digitalmars.com/d/dlinks.html
(4) [Easy] Add more info on the available IDEs: Up to date?
Graphical debugger? Features? Maintained? Recommended?
I'm currently using Sublime text but need my graphical debugger
so I'll try Eclipse + DDT soon. I could try Visual D but I'm
expecting to move off Windows. A good IntelliJ plug-in would be
ideal.
*Tell me about the IDEs and I'll update the wiki*
http://wiki.dlang.org/IDEs
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 04:35:27 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
you mean like this?
https://qznc.github.io/d-tut/index.html
Sort of, but it's old and says little about the language itself.
