Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-09-02 Thread via Digitalmars-d
I ported a C++ ray tracer to D for a course, using one of the minimalist OpenGL wrappers (some three letter name) and its D binding. Once the worst problems had been ironed out, I was using a pure C++ tutorial to get things to work displaying graphics. There's really not much D about doing

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 19:19:48 UTC, Sativa wrote: I think it would be helpful to have the d lang site host tutorials/lessons on various aspects of D. D is hard to use for certain things like gui's, graphics(ogl, dx, etc), etc... not necessarily because D can't do these things but

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 08:44:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: Sorry to say, but this is how a community-backed language works. D does not have a giant corporate sponsor like C#, who can pay for reams of documentation and tutorials. You're expected to like D enough to learn the language on your

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 10:14:05 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: And last but not least, the Wiki has lots of tutorials, though again it's IMO not discoverable enough: http://wiki.dlang.org/Articles http://wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials You're moving the goal posts. He specifically asked about D

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 19:19:48 UTC, Sativa wrote: I think it would be helpful to have the d lang site host tutorials/lessons on various aspects of D. D is hard to use for certain things like gui's, graphics(ogl, dx, etc), etc... not necessarily because D can't do these things but

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 10:36:52 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 10:14:05 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: And last but not least, the Wiki has lots of tutorials, though again it's IMO not discoverable enough: http://wiki.dlang.org/Articles http://wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials You're

Re: One Stop Shop?

2014-08-31 Thread Israel via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 19:19:48 UTC, Sativa wrote: I think it would be helpful to have the d lang site host tutorials/lessons on various aspects of D. D is hard to use for certain things like gui's, graphics(ogl, dx, etc), etc... not necessarily because D can't do these things but

One Stop Shop?

2014-08-30 Thread Sativa via Digitalmars-d
I think it would be helpful to have the d lang site host tutorials/lessons on various aspects of D. D is hard to use for certain things like gui's, graphics(ogl, dx, etc), etc... not necessarily because D can't do these things but because the information is not out there. If The D site