A bank for the wealth of D

[JN]

On Wednesday, 13 March 2019 at 11:04:07 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote:
> I have discovered D for almost two years now. My general option 
> is that D is an excellent language. It is a language design for 
> a programmer that focus on reality and provide the programmer 
> with a wealth of tools the programmer need to succeed within a 
> short time.
> 
> I will be happy if the D community can come out with a plan to 
> write an extensive tutorial on all aspect of D covering all 
> modules in the standard library and valuable third-party 
> libraries such as GTKD, dlangui, vibe-D etc. Contribution can 
> be made for people who are willing to undertake such a task. 
> The tutorial should also cover D tools in details and their 
> uses in different Os
> The result is that newcomers can easily grap the concepts of D 
> and use it in production which in turn we increase the adoption 
> of D giving that we have a vibrate community already

This is what it comes down to. The 'community'. Most people work 
on D for free, and like with everything in life, you get what you 
pay for. It is unreasonable to expect a language mostly built by 
volunteers and donations has the same support and help resources 
as big, established platforms supported by big international 
corporations.

> The community will have to put energy together to make a pro D 
> plugin for IntelliJ, eclipse at least. I Know such plugin exist 
> but they are not really working well. Today on window only 
> serve-d and code-d and visual-D are reliable
>

Sounds like duplication of effort. Most effort should probably go 
to projects like language servers, because the results can be 
easily reused for other platforms. Also, define "pro D plugin". D 
language design mostly disallows the kind of IDE support like 
you'd have for Java or C# (how do you rename a variable, if this 
variable doesn't exist until compile time, or it's name is 
stitched together with mixins).