D Consortium as Book / App Publisher... ?

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 14:44:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 08:25:58 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> recently).  Rather, the goal would be a site for hobbyists to 
>> learn how to use the language to its fullest, without having 
>> to dive into the source and github PRs to extract all that 
>> info themselves.  Obviously, learning D might indirectly 
>> benefit someone in their career, by learning new concepts from 
>> D that other languages don't employ, but that's not direct or 
>> immediate.
>
> I think wannabe game programmers is a sizeable market. 
> Programmers that dont have the capacity to learn modern C++ and 
> would pay for a quality tutorial of how to build a commercial 
> level game using OpenGL, OpenAL and a physics engine, with 
> downloadable chapter by chapter source code.

That's a good idea.  When I heard Mike Parker was putting out a 
book, I was expecting it to be something like that.  Maybe he'll 
do it on a paid blog instead. :)