On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 17:57:06 UTC, Chris wrote:
It seems clear that there are a variety of different types of
people who would want to learn the language. Maybe split up
the Getting Started page to a few sections, like "new
programmers", "intermediate programmers", "expert programmers".
IMO, it's not a good idea to classify people like that, because
even a beginner might need advanced stuff and they might ignore
the "advanced" section. Also, people might rate themselves as
"intermediate" while they actually do pretty advanced stuff.
Let's order by topic. It should come up when someone types
"dlang set up socket", and so on.
One important thing is to direct people to the right library
modules. This is something that really confuses people.
std.algorithm covers a lot of stuff that people would expect
elsewhere. I think std.string already tells people to go to
std.algorithm, but an overview would be nice.
Strings
std.string, std.algorithm (std.ascii etc) with a short
explanation.
Arrays
etc.
Basically a "Get sh*t done" page.
