Dne 24.5.2016 v 17:27 llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn napsal(a):
Hi everybody,
As written in the description I'm really new to D, I discovered it a
few weeks ago thanks to the D Conf in Berlin.
After playing around for couple of days with it, I wanted to share my
journey with you guys on several points.
1 - Installation (DMD and DUB)
I'm running Fedora 23 on a daily basis and the installation was OK.
Not as easy as on mac but still.
I can't say that that it was easy, because I had to curl dub.rpm
package and compile it from source. But it doesn't matter because for
a linux user thoses things a pretty usual.
On Archlinux this is even easier than on Mac just sudo yaourt -Sy dlang dub
2 - Play-around
That is the good part, after setting up my evt creating a Hello World
project and something a bit more complicated was really easy.
Thank's to DUB which take care of everything for me I was able to
create a website using Vibe.d project.
Congratulations on this point to all the people who made dub.
Programming in 2016 should be like this.
The only bad point I can see here is that it looks like it's more easy
easy to get ready on a mac than on a linux machine.
(I tried all this with a friend who is running the latest version of
mac).
As I said earlier it is fedora who should be blamed here :D
3 - Library
That part was also good. Clicking on the packages menu on the website
and searching for the things I need was indeed super easy. Everything
in a big registery that's cool.
I have a to say that I'm fucking amazed by the dlang.org website which
is super fast (WOW).
4 - Documentation (For a newbie)
This part was a bit different. By being a total newbie to the D
language I don't really know where to begins.
Of course I went to the getstarted.html page but as a newbie with no
system programming background I feel there are too many choices for me.
IMHO the best solution here would some kind of step by step tutorial
that go through all thoses points with very basic explanation.
After trying every of thoses pages, I finally try the "D Web
Development Kai Nacke" book which is pretty interesting.
The only bad point here is that I can't find a "Effective D" page. A
document that gives tips for writing clear, idiomatic D code. A must
read for any new D programmer. It augments the tour and the language
specification, both of which should be read first. (Like in golang for
example)
5 - Tools
Well in one word. It sucks. I've tried to setup an editor with all the
features that we can see in the wiki matrix.
The only one which take them all is vscode. But for setup the plugin I
had to compile the workspace-d package (which at the end didn't worked
https://github.com/Pure-D/workspace-d/issues/16#issuecomment-221274965).
Again on Archlinux just run this command: yaourt -Sy workspace-d and you
are done :)
So I folded over Sublime Text to have autocompletion but it's only
available for the standard library (and not for Vibe.d, the things
that i'm looking to use).
However I had to say that I was amazed by the rapidity of speed answer
over my github issue, WebFreak001 is doing really great job here!!
So, my plan here is to get more knowledge about the dlang in near
future. I'll be active on forum to annoy you guys.
Ps : I'm looking for up to date benchmark such as Dlang vs Go vs
Nodejs vs Swift vs TurboPascal ;) (Actually without pascal).
Cheers
