I think documentation is really important, and something has to
be done about it. How can a newcomer get started with D when he
doesn't have a readable documentation of Phobos?
A couple of random things I'd like to see:
1. Improve index.html. It's the first thing new users are likely
to see about Phobos and it appears to contain an overview of the
modules, but in fact it only lists half the modules of Phobos and
the description of most modules is too short to be useful. There
should also be a getting-started guide that lists the most common
data types and functions and which module contains them (to!T,
Tuple, writeln, ....) and it should also discuss the 'built-in'
types for completeness, like slices, hashes and strings, since in
other languages these are standard library components.)
2. To make the documentation easier to Google, put the keyword
"D2" on every page of the Phobos documentation, e.g. the heading
could change from "std.file" to "std.file (D2)". Nowadays when I
search for something about "D Language", I often find a page
about D1 instead of D2.
The "articles" should be reviewed too. For example the page on
tuples http://dlang.org/tuple.html makes it sound like you're
supposed to define your own Tuple type instead of using the one
in std.typecons; in fact it suggests
template Tuple(E...) { alias E Tuple; }
which is really a TypeTuple isn't it?
