Me: Software developer for 30 years.
So perhaps this is old fashion, but I wanted to start using D by
whipping together nice little personal utilities.
I tried installing MonoDevelop and Mono-D. I can't even figure
out the basics, such as adding references to a project. There
are no options in the context menus, and although it looks like
drag an drop might work (a '+' sign appears by the cursor),
dropping a file from the filesystem doesn't work either.
Although I dream of someday being able to add a reference to a
project, I'm not really sure what I might drag in. I managed to
download and compile GtkD, since it seems like a GUI would be a
nice place to start (again, old fashion). I got three *.lib
files out of it... Hmmmm... Maybe these are references??
I had installed the Visual Studio plugin, but I don't want to use
this since I would like to eventually migrate away from Windows.
Let me cut to the chase. I have no friggin' clue how to start,
and I can't seem to find a tutorial anywhere...
What IDE should I use? I'm not big fan of Eclipse, although if I
had to use it this wouldn't be a dealbreaker. Give me something
easy and lightweight, unless you've got a GUI builder (this is
why I started with MonoDevelop, though this isn't working so well
for me).
What Widget library should I use? I started with GTKD, but since
there are no tutorials does this mean nobody actually does this?
Should I use DWT? What about QT?
I just want something simple and mainstream to start learning D
with.
Any thoughts?
