Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the usability of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about how practical it is. Here it is, warts and all:

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Meta
It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional programming hype. One thing that caught my eye: I also recommend the book The D Programming

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Dicebot
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 13:53:24 UTC, Chris wrote: Dear Dees, Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The article deals with the usability of D and how it helped to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 19:04:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote: It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 14:21:06 UTC, bearophile wrote: Chris: http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/ [Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code) Is that true? For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its site isn't down). Bye,

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 15:47:29 UTC, Meta wrote: It's a good why should I care about D article. I frequent Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is Getting Things Done, as well as all the functional programming hype. That was the reason why

Re: Article about Applied D

2013-07-30 Thread Chris
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 17:23:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Good one, worth sharing. As a D user I'd probably love to see more technical details but for a wider public it is a solid match. The technical details are rather boring. Good old OOP and I made use of D's structs and some other nice