Documentation suggestion

electricface electricface at qq.com
Mon Feb 26 11:26:30 UTC 2024


On Sunday, 25 February 2024 at 17:25:43 UTC, Don Allen wrote:
> As many of you do, I use DMD when developing, taking advantage 
> of the compilation speed. But using dscanner has been a big 
> help in cleaning up my code, ala Rust.
>
> The website has the 'Learn' page, which I believe talks mostly 
> about language features. I would suggest adding some discussion 
> of things like the advantage of having the fast compiler while 
> developing and another a slower compiler for use once 
> development ends (if it ever does :-) that provides stronger 
> optimization. I would also suggest discussion of the use of 
> dscanner and dfmt (I'm really looking forward to the new one, 
> because I'm constantly cleaning up after the old one's 
> mistakes) and the availability of serve-d. And I would 
> certainly mention ImportC, which is a significant asset.
>
> These are all excellent aspects of D that are external to the 
> language itself. I'd like to see a section of 'Learn' that 
> talks about these things, pulling it all together in one place, 
> to help people have a really good experience developing in D 
> much earlier than I did.


Great suggestion, I support it.


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