Hi,
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 10:24:46 UTC, John Petal wrote:
So I gave D a shot. People were kind of right – it was hard for
a beginner for me to get into.
Could you make a whole sum up of the difficulties you encountered
? That kind of feedback is highly valuable for us. Once you get
experienced, you kind of loose the feel of what it is to be a
beginner. Please tell us what was difficult so we can work toward
fixing it.
I mean, I spent a whole day trying to make DSFML work. I wasn't
trying to produce anything, so I was happy that I spent my time
learning those things. I'm getting better – I still don't
consider myself as a "programmer," but I'm getting better.
(Sorry about the storytelling, I just wanted to share.)
To the contrary, lease share more so we know the details and can
fix them.
Now I want to know if the language is production-ready. I can't
really see anything besides abandoned libraries written in D.
Is it possible – for example – to write a simple 2D game, or an
automation program, or a text editor in D? I know the language
is perfectly capable, but I'm not sure if the tools are mature
enough.
There are several companies that uses D, so yes. However, truth
in advertising, it is much much much smaller than let's say java
or C++. You are much more likely to encounter thing that have
poor support or whatever, simply because the manpower behind in
it is vastly smaller.
Happy to get you on board :D
