My D book is now officially coming soon

[Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:39:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>> Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this 
>> in 337 pages?!
>
> Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some 
> shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges 
> and reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos) 
> and in some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on 
> faith.
>
> Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in 
> the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just 
> "that interacts with the hardware, trust me". So that chapter 
> was only about 15 pages.... a lot for two "recipes" ("hello 
> world" and "handling interrupts"), but certainly not a 
> comprehensive covering of the subject.
>
> I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit 
> more into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions 
> more than on how the hardware actually works.
>
>> I assume it has standard PACKT format ("give it a go hero" 
>> etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz!
>
> yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code 
> (not always a complete program but usually), then some talk 
> about how it works and covering details.
>
> the code should also be available as a separate download for 
> each thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that 
> way.

Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I am 
really interested in resource management. I still can't find 
myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent 
discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P).