On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 06:06:38PM +0100, xancorreu wrote: [...] > I note that gdc is completely free software but dmd runtime is not.
You mean free as in freedom, not as in price. > An alternative is ldc, also free. I looked up ldc recently, and it seems that it hasn't been updated for years. Seems that gdc is the only other D compiler that's still actively maintained. And from what I hear, its front end is essentially the same as dmd. [...] > A painful is the lack of documentation: there is only API/Classes > docs and few html pages. The books are non-free and there are not > worth tutorials. Andrei's book is worth the buy. It's not that expensive and it covers a lot of very useful stuff. As for docs and tutorials, why not contribute by writing more of them? > I like D but definitively it makes me back!. > Compare for example golang and D. Both relatively new languages (D is > elder) and you have many more docs about golang than D. You have not a > bunch of docs, docs you get with python or perl, but it's worthy > amount. [...] It's because of the size of the community. The D community is relatively small, but because google has such a wide exposure, golang has acquired a large following in spite of its young age. Larger community == more people writing tutorials, docs, howtos, etc.. So how to combat this? Write your own tutorials and docs. Contribute to the community. T -- The fact that anyone still uses AOL shows that even the presence of options doesn't stop some people from picking the pessimal one. - Mike Ellis
