One Stop Shop?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 19:19:48 UTC, Sativa wrote:
> I think it would be helpful to have the d lang site host 
> tutorials/lessons on various aspects of D. D is hard to use for 
> certain things like gui's, graphics(ogl, dx, etc), etc... not 
> necessarily because D can't do these things but because the 
> information is not out there.
>
> If The D site hosted, sort of like a wiki, but with properly 
> designed articles about how to do things in D, maybe more 
> people would start to use it?
>
> For example,
>
> I'd like to get into graphics and gui programming using D. I 
> could use something like C#.NET which would make life easier 
> but I don't like the drawbacks of C#.
>
> But trying to find coherent information, say, to draw an image 
> on screen using opengl and D is nearly impossible... and way 
> too time consuming, compared to finding similar information 
> using C/C++ or most other popular languages.
>
> Getting D to work in these scenarios are already complicated 
> enough. Usually it relies on the work of one person who hasn't 
> made it clear how to do it well. I know D can do graphics, I've 
> seen it done... I've even read some tutorials on it... but 
> nothing is clear, relevant, or updated.
>
> Having a quick way to access stuff in the categories like
>
> Sound(playing sounds, VST design)
>
> Graphics(Gui, 2D/3D using open GL, etc...)
>
> etc...
>
>
> e.g., suppose I want to create a vst in D... google "D lang 
> vst", and the only relevant site that comes up is:
>
> http://le-son666.com/software/vstd/
>
> Woo hoo! looks like someone did the work for us!
>
> But seriously? There is just enough information to hang myself. 
> Do I really want to go down this path and potentially waste 
> countless hours trying to get something to work that might not?
>
> I feel many others go through the same thought processes.
>
> If there was a wiki like site for D that is based on tutorials 
> and experiences/results then surely it would help a lot of 
> people. If people could contribute there problems or solutions 
> in a unified and connected way, it would be easier to find the 
> relevant information than it is now.
>
> About 95% of the time when I search for something that I want 
> to do in D, I get a forum post... and about 15% of the time it 
> actually leads to something useful. Maybe bout 5% of the time 
> it actually solves my problem.
>
> There is just so much junk out there and all the gems are lost. 
> Most of the gems need some polishing to show their true beauty.

Professional tutorials would, of course, be ideal. Unfortunately 
they take a lot of time and effort to write.

There is a middle ground between an API such as the link you've 
given and writing full-blown tutorials. It's relatively easy to 
write up a set of examples covering the most common cases. First 
a "Hello World" example to get started and then a dozen more 
involved examples. They could be posted on the wiki or put in a 
Git repo and then linked from the wiki.