On Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:54:11 +0200 Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > > - I looked into GtkD, which refers to the build tool DSSS. However > DSSS seems to be unmaintained for a couple of years. >
DSSS has been dead for a long time, I don't know why an active project like GtkD is apparently mentioning it. The proper tool (equivalent to DSSS's "rebuild") is RDMD, which is bundled with DMD. > (Why does every > new language needs its own build tool?) Because there aren't any good ones (IMO). They all seem to fall into one of two categories: - Something that either *is* make, is a variant of make, or uses make. - Introduces a requirement of some *other* language. (I don't want to force people to install or deal with Ruby or Python, and make sure they're on the right version of it, just to compile my D code.) > - I looked for a PostgreSQL client library. I found small personal > hacks and dead projects. > SQL lib support is unfortunately one of our weak points ATM. I could point you to a decent MySQL lib :/ > - I looked at http://www.dsource.org/forums - most forums are dead. > Like Walter said, the main, active, D forums are right here. Also, most D project hosting has moved from DSource to places like BitBucket and GitHub. > Is it possible that D is a dead language? Definitely not. *DSource* is dying, unfortunately, which has lead some people to assume the same of the rest of D. But no, D is going very strong, and has only been getting bigger. > For a newbie like me it > would be very helpful to have a list of good, healthy projects for my > first steps in D instead of finding cadavers all around. Typesafe, > the company behind Scala, maintains a "Typesafe Stack" of active, > recommendable projects. > We have a list on the Wiki: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi I don't know how well-maintained that list is. If it isn't well-maintained, then it certainly needs to be.