How do you use D?

[solidstate1991 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 28 July 2017 at 14:58:01 UTC, Ali wrote:
> While the Orgs using D page is very nice ... I hoping to hear 
> more personal stories ...
>
> So
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> How do you use D?

For personal projects, using a mixed form of OOP and procedural 
programming (I won't make static classes if I'm not forced to, 
like in Java and C#).

> In work, (key projects or smaller side projects)

I almost got a job at Sociomantic, that's all. If I were asked to 
develop someone a PHP based website, I'd probably would use 
vibe.D instead, while keep telling them that how much I had to 
work with PHP.

> in your side project, (github, links please)

Projects that have been publicized:
-PixelPerfectEngine: 
https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/pixelperfectengine A 2D engine 
mainly for retro games, once I get a way for efficient 2D 
acceleration it probably could easily handle native HD 
resolutions.
-OpenRG: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991/OpenRG A response to the 
abandonment of easily usable raster graphics acceleration, will 
be written in DCompute for easy portability. I currently need 
more people on planning stuff, mainly for embedded systems.

Currently nonpublic projects:
-libPCM: A Library for converting and playing back various PCM 
and ADPCM formats. Currently having issues with finding usable 
ADPCM codec guides.
-libLZHAM: Compression algorithm using an obscure algorithm found 
on github with my own enhancements, like an archive file format. 
It has speeds comparable to ZLIB, but almost the same compression 
rate as LZMA (sometimes it even surpasses it). DCompute version 
is planned.

> just to learn something new? (I would easily argue that 
> learning D will make you a better C++ programmer, maybe not the 
> most efficient way, but I a sure it i very effective)

I pretty much learned C (and C#) through D.

> Did you introduce D to your work place? How? What challenges 
> did you face?

I introduced it in my college, I even made an OOP project using D 
as I no longer liked Java. My teacher could instantly read it, 
since he was pretty good with C++, Java, C#, and many others.

> What is you D setup at work, which compiler, which IDE?

VS2015, DMD for x86 (thinking on working on an ARM codegen), LDC 
for everything else (engine will have several optimizations for 
single board computers like rPi, and maybe even mobile phones).