A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Charles Pritchard via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 13 March 2015 at 23:10:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/13/15 2:02 PM, Almighty Bob wrote:
>> The language reference is pretty abysmal too. EG...
...
>> The page on templates starts with scope and instantiation 
>> details. The
>> examples at the start have alias parameters which aren't 
>> explained until
>> half way down the page.
>
> The language reference is fine if arid. One shouldn't learn the 
> language from its reference. It should be, however, 
> complemented by tutorials. -- Andrei


On the language reference:

The D documentation as an introduction is readable, though large. 
Relative to that, the DLib documentation hurts.
http://dlang.org/arrays.html
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_array.html

When I was new to PHP, I can tell you that the php.net/<funcname> 
method of learning was a big help. It redirected me to the 
appropriate manual page and manual pages had code snippets, often 
provided in the comments section.


As an example, I want to do something random, and the PHP docs 
are much easier to understand.
http://php.net/rand
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_random.html


-Charles