On Saturday, 15 October 2016 at 01:46:52 UTC, Chris Nelson wrote:
I'm mainly a scripting language, .NET, and SQL programmer. I've
been looking for a good programming language for Linux/BSD
other than Python. I've surveyed the options and D appears to
be a sane modern choice for me. (Thanks Ali Çehreli and others!)
The only hitch is that many of the projects and libraries I'm
interested in using or maybe porting are mainly C based. (My
overall C-fu is weak...) Should I review a good C book or
tutorial before jumping in to fully learning D? Or should I
just eschew any C exposure until I master D?
(As a side note, many of the C libraries I'm interested in seem
to be confusing messes of header files and "organic" code. But
who am I to judge?)
It is possible to write in a C style in D and they are similar
enough (when writing like C) that learning D should cover you for
most of the C (sans macros), but obviously D can do a whole lot
more.
D has the philosophy that it should work the same way as C or not
compile at all.
As always Ali's book is excellent (and free!), so start with that.
There are many bindings for C libraries available for D, see
code.dlang.org or try dstep as mentioned above.
