On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 14:15:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 08:51:13 UTC, Warwick wrote:
many visitors are ending up using language reference to learn
D.
Or they use that reference to get their first impressions.
Then they're fools.
In order to go to the link "D Reference" on dlang.org, your
eyes have to scan past the "Getting Started" link and you have
to purposely decide not to click on it. If I wanted to get up
and running with a language, I wouldn't ignore the page that
was obviously meant to help me.
Even if they didn't see the link, the FIRST result if you
google "D language tutorial" is Ali's book. I'm really not sure
what else can be done to help people.
Yep, what can one say.
1. Who goes to the language reference, when they want to _learn_
a language?
2. If you really want to learn a language, you will learn it.
There are enough resources for D now, there's room for
improvement, but there always is.
I know, catering for the "one second attention span" crowd is a
recipe for success, if you deal with PHP or JS. But D is not in
that league. Even if you cater for them, they will soon be
frustrated anyway, because for D you'll need a deeper
understanding of things, sooner or later.
