On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 16:53:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/15/15 1:42 AM, weaselcat wrote:
On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 07:58:47 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 1/14/15 7:19 PM, brian wrote:
My point was that there are fewer examples of *how* to do
things in D.
This will discourage the new user, which will prevent it
becoming a more
popular language.
Yes, it would be great if we could crowdsource a cornucopia
of "how
to" topics in D. -- Andrei
D is the 8th most popular language on Rosetta Code(I think
most of the
entries are from a single person - Bearophile), it's within
~25 entries
of C, Ruby, etc.
Way to go bearophile! Could somebody please insert a reference
to Rosetta Code on dlang.org?
There's also the cookbook on the wiki that's unfinished.
http://wiki.dlang.org/Cookbook
and the tutorial page
http://wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials
Well those need to be finished before we advertise them.
Andrei
I suppose such things will never be really 'finished', but indeed
they are of uneven quality, and sort of scattered. Seems like a
rather random collection of stuff, which is a testament to the
project's open source nature.
Finally, one issue with using a Wiki in general is that it would
be nice if any code snippets in D howto's, FAQs, tutorials, etc
could be run through the latest DMD release so that it doesn't
get 'out of step' with the current language. I suppose if most of
the Howto's/Tutorials were written in DDOC the Howto/Tutorials
could be run through the auto-tester ... but I am not sure
exactly how this would be done/how difficult it would be.
