I'm new here too (never heard of D before 2017).
c). The whole community seems infused with both the Feminism/SJW
I didn't tried out Rust, but that would draw me away too. (Incidentally it was a comment on alternatives for Rust, that pointed me to D.)
2. I am also curious as to what would be the best path for a complete beginner to D to learn it effectively?
I started with the online version of the book of Ali Çehreli but after a while I decided to buy it and was impressed on its size (more than 700 pages!). Meanwhile I'm halfway through.
At the same time I'm working on a project of mine, which I just started writing in C++ last december, because I couldn't find a better language and thought I had to bite the bullet. Meanwhile it's completely rewritten in D (but two lines of C code that I need to use a C-libraray). Whenever I came across a new concept in the book I tried to refactor that project using this concept.
This approach worked very well for me. (And I appreciate this Learn-forum, because else I'd not dare to ask my seemingly silly questions.)
You wrote:
... area thoroughly!The introspection ...
I just realised, how much I'm thinking in D allready when I saw this: At first glance I wondered, what this thoroughly-template is about... ;-)
