books for learning D

[René Heldmaier]

On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 10:28:48 UTC, mark wrote:
> I'm just starting out learning D.
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu's "The D Programming Language" is 10 years 
> old, so is it still worth getting? (I don't know how much D has 
> changed in 10 years.)

I found the book amazing. It not only explains the language, but 
also how things work behind the scenes. For a book on programming 
languages it's written in an entertaining style. It's also a joy 
to see how beautiful the design of D is, compared to languages 
like C++ or C#.

But...

The book is definitely not written for beginners. You should at 
least have a good understanding of C (Especially the concept of 
pointers). Even though the chapter on pointers is only 2 pages 
long, the word "pointer" occurs 155 times in the book (I made a 
quick search over my ebook version).