Hello D World

[Bill Baxter]

Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
> On 2008-05-10 10:08:10 +0200, Robert Fraser <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> 
> said:
> 
>> torhu 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
>>>
>>> Hello, Dee Girl :)
>>>
>>> I'd probably go with Phobos while you're learning the language, I found
>>> it easier to get the hang of than Tango.  While Tango is more flexible
>>> and powerful, once you get to know it.
>>>
>>> Chosing between D1/D2 and tango/phobos often comes down to which
>>> libraries you need for your app.  Like if you want to use the new DWT,
>>> Tango and D1 is your only option.    Some third-party libraries can be
>>> used with both tango and phobos, some support just one.  And I think
>>> most libraries only support D1, so D2 is more for just playing around
>>> with at the moment.
>>>
>>> I recommend codepad.org, it's a great way of trying out stuff.  It's a
>>> pastebin that will actually compile and run your code, displaying the
>>> output.  Both tango and phobos (through the tangobos library) work 
>>> there.
>>
>> Most Phobos libraries run under Tangobos just fine. Actually, I've 
>> only tried it with DMDScript, which _didn't_, but supposedly they do ;-P.

There is a requirement with Tangobos that _something_ from std.* be 
imported.  So it is not the case that you can always compile 
Phobos-based source out of the box.  Sometimes you need to stick a

  version(Tango) import std.compat;

at the top of a file.  This is because Tango's built-in "object" module 
   lacks some of the definitions that are in that of Phobos, like 
aliases for string,dstring,wstring.

--bb