D lesson 1: learn to read and steal code

[Andy Balba]

On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 18:39:53 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source. 
> "Spoiled" by PHP, then JavaScript,..., before deep D, I 
> wondered how some people live by not having docs. It may sound 
> like a no-brainer but it was not immediately obvious or 
> comfortable to do. You can live an entire career without 
> looking up things... Imagine you don't get that same exact 
> treatment in a language you've come to like.
>
> It turns out sometimes reading code on how things are 
> implemented from source code and even porting some to D teaches 
> you things you may not otherwise have learnt any other way. The 
> well thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all 
> the mistakes they may have made before coming up with that 
> implementation. I'm learning everyday in d-land.
>
> Can't say the same for some meta-programming monstrosity I've 
> comes across though :) Also I still believe documenting code is 
> very necessary for quick consumption of public APIs.

I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this 
is a very accurate summary of my current journey to master Dlang :

" ... reading code on how things are implemented from source code 
and even porting some to D teaches you things you may not 
otherwise have learnt any other way... well thought-out code 
written by others help you leapfrog all the mistakes they may 
have made before coming up with that implementation. ...I'm 
learning everyday in d-land. " .. Another outstanding Dlang 
feature is this forum