Btw maybe the simplest way to achieve what I suggest would be to
ask Basil to allow the CoEdit windows installer to optionally
download and install the D compiler.
This way you download only one setup.exe, and you are ready to
go...
Just put a big obvious download link button towards this exe on
D's main landing page and that's it.
I still think that D's main landing page should actually be based
the content of the Dlang Tour landing page, which is more
welcoming.
Btw +1 for the simple hello-world example :
import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm;
import std.range;
void main()
{
// Let's get going!
writeln("Hello World!");
// An example for experienced programmers:
// Take three arrays, and without allocating
// any new memory, sort across all the
// arrays inplace
int[] arr1 = [4, 9, 7];
int[] arr2 = [5, 2, 1, 10];
int[] arr3 = [6, 8, 3];
sort(chain(arr1, arr2, arr3));
writefln("%s\n%s\n%s\n", arr1, arr2, arr3);
// To learn more about this example, see the
// "Range algorithms" page under "Gems"
}
Personally I would have written the last statement with a simple
writeln :
writeln( arr1, "\n", arr2, "\n", arr3, "\n" );
Longer, less idiomatic, but still a little bit simpler to
understand than "%s\n%s\%s\n".
The devil is in the detail...
