On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 04:54:05 UTC, ikelaiah wrote:
I'm aware of the publication date. However, I find the content
still highly relevant to many day-to-day tasks (my use case).
Yeah, I tried to focus more on the ideas behind it than the
specifics of a library. My thought is if you understand what it
is trying to do, the adjustments to bring it up to date shouldn't
be too hard.
It took some effort to avoid talking more about my libraries
though lol. I did do a few small examples near the end of the
book, and some of those have had minor changes, like I've since
renamed "import simpledisplay" to "import arsd.simpledisplay".
But the rest of it should still work, i try to keep things pretty
stable in my libs.
BTW one of the things in chapter 2 i found surprisingly popular
was the talk about std.socket. I did write a follow-up to that in
my blog here:
http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2019_11_11.html#sockets-tutorial
Since the socket api is the same as C, I assumed people would
know it from other sources, but the C api isn't as common
knowledge as it used to be. So this tries to explain (tho even
there I didn't go into ipv6 fallbacks and whatnot but it still
lays the foundation).
And of course always feel free to ask here or whatever about
anything, if I'm online I try to answer things pretty quickly.
