Hello D World

[Fawzi Mohamed]

I use D1.0 dsss and tango + tangobos, and I am happy with it.
I found some bugs both phobos and tango (and tangobos, but there it is 
also my fault as I did the port to gdc :).
Anyway on tango there was a quick feedback, the bugs got fixed (or are 
on they way, and I have a workaround).
Also tango seems faster and with more functionality, and is well 
documented, so I stick with tango.

I find D 2.0 very interesting and nice and I want to play with it, but 
I have forced myself to first finish something serious with D, before 
loosing an unknown amount of time playing with D 2.0.

I should say that the platforms I care about are Macintosh and Linux 
x86_64, on which dmd does not work, so when I say phobos I mean gdc 
phobos, and likewise the 2.0 in gdc is slightly older than dmd's, so 
your mileage might vary.

Fawzi

On 2008-05-10 18:01:33 +0200, lurker <lurker at lurker.com> said:

> i like D2 and am very content with it. sure some small bugs, but that's 
> ok - it got super features too.
> i use phobos and like that too, it is so neatly minimalistic. i did not 
> have the wish to use any feature of tango yet - seems like everybody 
> wants to push it.
> so go with D2 and phobos, you'll like it.
> 
> Sean Kelly Wrote:
> 
>> Dee Girl wrote:
>>> I read the online documentation of D and decided to give it a try. I'll 
>>> need to choose one of D1 with Phobos, D1 with Tango, or D2 with Phobos.
>>> 
>>> The minimalist in me wants Phobos, the app writer wants Tango, and the 
>>> programming language lover wants D2. Any advice on what combination I 
>>> should choose? I want to first write a few programs for my own use. 
>>> Thank you, Dee Girl
>> 
>> You don't have to decide right away.  There's a "Tango with Tangobos"
>> distribution available from the Tango website which has both.  Tangobos
>> being a port of Phobos to the Tango runtime.  Assuming you're using DMD,
>> go to this link:
>> 
>> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/DmdDownloads
>> 
>> And get the current release "bundled with Tangobos."
>> 
>> 
>> Sean