On 14/01/2015 12:34 p.m., brian wrote:
I know this thread is a little old now, and I'm not the most experienced
programmer by a long shot, but I'll post my 2 cents from the n00b
persepctive.
A question first: ... what do people actually have working in D?
I find very few "working examples" of things I want to do. Or things in
general. That I can read and say "oooh that's close to what I want, I
can tweak it a little here and there".
Eg.
I want a program to write tweets.
I can't just google "twitter example d" and find a nice starter program
to connect a write a tweet.
Do the same with "twitter example java" and you'll probably have your
problem solved within half an hour.
So in half an hour I have a java program, and not a d one. I'll probably
make changes to my java one and grow that, rather than trying to rewrite
it in D because I don't even know it will work.
The same can be said when I try to do other things too:
Like parse a webpage.
Or connect to APIs.
(maybe I'm constantly looking for things that other's don't do, but
that's unlikely)
So for me, it's getting easier to solve my simple programming problems
in other languages because I can find examples that a) others have
posted and b) others have the same issues I face.
I can't find those things in D nearly as easily (is this a limit of
searching the term "D" or dlang?)
try
solveMyProblem(close_to_exactly);
catch(Exception e)
writeln("this library sucks");
finally {
do it myself with exactly what i need and little more
}
I'd *love* to be able to do this, but if libraries don't work,
personally, I don't know where to start most of the time. What if there
isn't a library at all? html headers, oauth, blah blah. I may as well
build a rocket. I have plenty of projects where I hit a wall (which I
don't think is necessarily a language thing, but trying to use D to get
to something else/do something).
So in summary, from my perspective I find it difficult to solve the
programming challenges I face, using D. Maybe that's a skill thing.
Lack of working examples makes taking that first leap daunting.
Lack of connectivity (to the things I want to connect to) is
frustrating. Through googling, I'll be able to get something running
quicker in another language than continue trying to get D to work.
If I find these issues, and I'm moderately intelligent, I'm sure others
have the same issues.
I love the language, but if someone wanted a language to learn, I don't
think I would recommend D. :(
For my next book I was thinking about taking it from the point of view
of cook book. I want to do X, how do I do it?
Which is exactly what you are wanting.
Point being not language orientated. More feature orientated.
