Learning D
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 25 10:01:10 PDT 2014
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 16:46:11 UTC, Ryan wrote:
> Me: Software developer for 30 years.
>
> So perhaps this is old fashion, but I wanted to start using D
> by whipping together nice little personal utilities.
>
> I tried installing MonoDevelop and Mono-D. I can't even figure
> out the basics, such as adding references to a project. There
> are no options in the context menus, and although it looks like
> drag an drop might work (a '+' sign appears by the cursor),
> dropping a file from the filesystem doesn't work either.
>
> Although I dream of someday being able to add a reference to a
> project, I'm not really sure what I might drag in. I managed
> to download and compile GtkD, since it seems like a GUI would
> be a nice place to start (again, old fashion). I got three
> *.lib files out of it... Hmmmm... Maybe these are references??
>
> I had installed the Visual Studio plugin, but I don't want to
> use this since I would like to eventually migrate away from
> Windows.
>
> Let me cut to the chase. I have no friggin' clue how to start,
> and I can't seem to find a tutorial anywhere...
>
> What IDE should I use? I'm not big fan of Eclipse, although if
> I had to use it this wouldn't be a dealbreaker. Give me
> something easy and lightweight, unless you've got a GUI builder
> (this is why I started with MonoDevelop, though this isn't
> working so well for me).
>
> What Widget library should I use? I started with GTKD, but
> since there are no tutorials does this mean nobody actually
> does this? Should I use DWT? What about QT?
>
> I just want something simple and mainstream to start learning D
> with.
>
> Any thoughts?
Mono-D + dub (see code.dlang.org) is the easiest way to get
things working quickly. Mono-D has builtin support for dub.
For learning D, see Ali's book:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html (from scratch) or Andrei's
"The D Programming Language" (for the more experienced). Adam D.
Ruppe's "D Cookbook" also has interesting examples of usage.
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