I was able to write some D last week!

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 11 July 2019 at 13:40:50 UTC, matheus wrote:
> Do you think that your libraries could fill this gap for D?

Possibly. So I'm trying to convince my bosses at work to let me 
use D on the core product and one of the points I made is that D 
is really easy for new devs to use.

Part of my strategy is to bundle everything in one place. You 
download this zip and it just works - the compiler is included, 
the libs are included, the main code, and even a test database. 
They haven't looked at it yet.... but in all my own tests, it 
legitimately just works. You can start playing around with it in 
a matter of minutes.

I sometimes think about doing basically the same thing for open 
source D users too. Package my libs in with the compiler, a 
sqlite and openssl binary build so those just work too, and then 
some cute examples to get started. I imagine it'd be pretty easy 
and since my stuff covers such a broad range - terminal, gui, 
game, web, etc. - there'd likely be something fun in there for 
anyone.

I even wrote a bunch of basic games as simpledisplay examples: 
http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/arsd.simpledisplay.html#pong so a fun little thing to start with there.

I just haven't actually gotten around to trying it.


Just on the other hand, I don't do much marketing at all so even 
if it was perfect nobody would know about it lololol