My first experience as a D Newbie

[Vadim Lopatin]

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 03:50:31 UTC, Dennis Cote wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 01:26:33 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>>
>> You have to fetch it first if you don't already have it:
>> dub fetch dlangide
>> dub run dlangide
>>
>> Of course, you might still have an issue...
>
> I still have an issue on macOS using latest Homebrew version of 
> dmd and dub.
>
> It seems like it builds with one deprecation warning, but fails 
> to run.
>
> I fetched into an empty directory then run. All build and error 
> message are in the link below:
>
> https://pastebin.com/FLQHwGXf
>
> It looks like SLD2 is missing, so I installed it via Homebrew 
> and tried again. This time it runs but displays a window full 
> of micro sized text and icons. It is barely readable. The link 
> below leads to a screenshot showing the dlangide window and 
> Dlang.org open in Safari for comparison.
>
> http://tinypic.com/r/20jiico/9
>
> Not trying to slam dlangide (in fact it looks promising), but 
> these kind of issues, when following the instructions given, 
> show how incomplete or untested instructions can lead new users 
> to have a frustrating first experience with D.
>
> Dennis Cote

I've updated README on https://github.com/buggins/dlangide

"Try DlangIDE" section is added with build instructions, DMD and 
DUB installation, libSDL2 installation, build troubleshooting.