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

[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 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.
On Archlinux this is even easier than on Mac just sudo yaourt -Sy dlang dub

>
> 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).
>
As I said earlier it is fedora who should be blamed here :D
> 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).

Again on Archlinux just run this command: yaourt -Sy workspace-d and you 
are done :)

> 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
>
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