On Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:44:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer has been using D to teach a group of
children to program. He wrote about his experience for the D
blog. Is D a viable first language? See what Steve has to say
about it :-)
The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2021/12/23/teaching-d-from-scratch-is-it-a-viable-first-language/
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rmuufa/teaching_d_from_scratch_is_it_a_viable_first/
This is super cool. I absolutely agree with Steven that we have a
*lot* to go (in terms of compiler diagnostics, and really,
general user experience), but it’s always great to hear about the
wisdom of D being spread around.
I’ve mentioned it on the discord, but I’d perhaps be open to
chipping in some for these improved diagnostics / UX improvements
(number one on my wishlist is improved code completion engine
using the DMD front-end!). I really think those are the two
biggest things that are holding adoption back now, and we still
have a lot of work in that regard. This is actually where I think
Rust has a leg up on us — the language might not be that great,
but you *really* can’t beat those compiler diagnostics.
