Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-29 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 13:57 +, qznc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 09:41:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: > > I do not really have the proper resources to host such a  > > repository and because of this I have not built one. I know I  > > should rather than just

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 11:24:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: […] [...] I thought DMD and Phobos were separate. Given proper versioning (which I think we have) there should be no problem. The problem are parts like std.math which contain compiler-specific optimizations. That being said

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 09:41:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I do not really have the proper resources to host such a repository and because of this I have not built one. I know I should rather than just moan, but Debian is my main platform and that is covered. Yes, this is the core

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: The only bad point here is that I can't find a "Effective D" page. A document that gives tips for writing clear, idiomatic D code. A must read for any new D programmer. It augments the tour and the language specification, both of which

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 10:18 +, Richard Delorme via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: […] > The main problem is that ldc, dmd and gdc cannot share the same  > runtime library yet. So the three compilers do not cohabit well  > in a system wide environment. The manual installation puts each  > compiler

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Richard Delorme via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 09:41:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: D is a problem on Fedora: dmd, gdc, and dub are not packaged. ldc is so there is that – many would argue that having ldc is much more important than dmd or gdc. The main problem is that ldc, dmd and gdc cannot share the same

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 09:54 +, llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > […] > > So in your opinion Debian is the best platform for D development?  > Which IDE/Editor to you use? Use of Debian is not really a D thing , but because of D-Apt Debian is good for D working. I am sure Arch is as

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 09:41:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 07:43 +, llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] [...] D is a problem on Fedora: dmd, gdc, and dub are not packaged. ldc is so there is that – many would argue that having ldc is much more important

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 07:43 +, llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: […] > > Thank your for your answer! Maybe all thoses are Fedora related  > yes :) But I guess that for the moment I have to keep it  > unfortunatly but that's OK, let's try to make dlang great on  > fedora ! D is a problem

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: Hi everybody, As written in the description I'm really new to D, I discovered it a few weeks ago thanks to the D Conf in Berlin. After playing around for couple of days with it, I wanted to share my journey with you guys on several

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 19:32:11 UTC, Seb wrote: On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:03:17 UTC, cy wrote: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ I wanted to mention as well, if you like idioms. That guy has some good ideas. On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 17:36:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Yes, a link from

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-25 Thread llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 16:17:25 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: Dne 24.5.2016 v 17:27 llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn napsal(a): [...] On Archlinux this is even easier than on Mac just sudo yaourt -Sy dlang dub [...] As I said earlier it is fedora who should be blamed here :D [...] Again

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread qznc via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: As written in the description I'm really new to D, I discovered it a few weeks ago thanks to the D Conf in Berlin. After playing around for couple of days with it, I wanted to share my journey with you guys on several points. Thanks for

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 18:03:17 UTC, cy wrote: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ I wanted to mention as well, if you like idioms. That guy has some good ideas. On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 17:36:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Yes, a link from that page points to a book that *can* be bought but

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread cy via Digitalmars-d-learn
https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ I wanted to mention as well, if you like idioms. That guy has some good ideas. On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 17:36:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Yes, a link from that page points to a book that *can* be bought but it's available online as well: It's worth buying,

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 05/24/2016 10:05 AM, cy wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: >> Of course I went to the getstarted.html page but > >> as a newbie with no system programming background I feel there are too >> many choices for me. > > Oh, I don't think system programming is the issue

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread cy via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: I'm running Fedora 23 on a daily basis and the installation was OK. Not as easy as on mac but still. Yeah, rpm based distributions like Fedora/Redhat/etc have historically been a real pain when it comes to installing stuff. Depending on

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread Basile B. via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 15:27:45 UTC, llaine wrote: Hi everybody, [...] 5 - Tools I've seen your comment on the DCD issue related to DUB (#198). It mays be the plugin (and not DCD ) that doesn't register well vibe-d. Also it's possible that it didn't work because vibe-d was not yet

Re: Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn
Dne 24.5.2016 v 17:27 llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn napsal(a): Hi everybody, As written in the description I'm really new to D, I discovered it a few weeks ago thanks to the D Conf in Berlin. After playing around for couple of days with it, I wanted to share my journey with you guys on

Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

2016-05-24 Thread llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi everybody, As written in the description I'm really new to D, I discovered it a few weeks ago thanks to the D Conf in Berlin. After playing around for couple of days with it, I wanted to share my journey with you guys on several points. 1 - Installation (DMD and DUB) I'm running