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

[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 Fedora 23 on a daily basis and the installation was 
OK. Not as easy as on mac but still.
I can't say that that it was easy, because I had to curl dub.rpm 
package and compile it from source. But it doesn't matter because 
for a linux user thoses things a pretty usual.


2 - Play-around

That is the good part, after setting up my evt creating a Hello 
World project and something a bit more complicated was really 
easy.
Thank's to DUB which take care of everything for me I was able to 
create a website using Vibe.d project.
Congratulations on this point to all the people who made dub. 
Programming in 2016 should be like this.

The only bad point I can see here is that it looks like it's more 
easy easy to get ready on a mac than on a linux machine.
(I tried all this with a friend who is running the latest version 
of mac).



3 - Library

That part was also good. Clicking on the packages menu on the 
website and searching for the things I need was indeed super 
easy. Everything in a big registery that's cool.
I have a to say that I'm fucking amazed by the dlang.org website 
which is super fast (WOW).

4 - Documentation (For a newbie)

This part was a bit different. By being a total newbie to the D 
language I don't really know where to begins.
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.
IMHO the best solution here would some kind of step by step 
tutorial that go through all thoses points with very basic 
explanation.
After trying every of thoses pages, I finally try the "D Web 
Development Kai Nacke" book which is pretty interesting.

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 should be read 
first. (Like in golang for example)

5 - Tools

Well in one word. It sucks. I've tried to setup an editor with 
all the features that we can see in the wiki matrix.
The only one which take them all is vscode. But for setup the 
plugin I had to compile the workspace-d package (which at the end 
didn't worked 
https://github.com/Pure-D/workspace-d/issues/16#issuecomment-221274965).
So I folded over Sublime Text to have autocompletion but it's 
only available for the standard library (and not for Vibe.d, the 
things that i'm looking to use).

However I had to say that I was amazed by the rapidity of speed 
answer over my github issue, WebFreak001 is doing really great 
job here!!


So, my plan here is to get more knowledge about the dlang in near 
future. I'll be active on forum to annoy you guys.

Ps : I'm looking for up to date benchmark such as Dlang vs Go vs 
Nodejs vs Swift vs TurboPascal ;) (Actually without pascal).

Cheers