Effective D book?

[Walter Bright]

On 6/14/2013 7:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'm a bit reticent to bring it up given that I won't be done anytime soon, but
> I actually started writing such a book following DConf. After Andrew brought
> up the possibility of Effective D in his talk and all of the talk that occurred
> at DConf about doing more with tutorials and publishing best practices, I
> decided that I'd give it shot.

Awesome!

> And while I'm sure that there's plenty more best practices that we'll figure
> out over time, and some of what we do know has been shifting as we learn, I
> think that we do know enough at this point about best practices in D to fill
> such a book.

Keep us posted.


> Interestingly enough, based on Andrei's suggestions, I'm writing it using ddoc
> so that it can easily be converted into latex, html, and e-book formats rather
> than being tied to any particular format (I was going to use latex, but Andrei
> thought that a macro language would be better as latex is very tied to physical
> print and fixed layouts). It'll probably be the first book ever to be written
> entirely in ddoc.

This is just being a win all around!