On the D Blog -- Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language?

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On Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 12:44:04 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer has been using D to teach a group of 
> children to program. He wrote about his experience for the D 
> blog. Is D a viable first language? See what Steve has to say 
> about it :-)
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2021/12/23/teaching-d-from-scratch-is-it-a-viable-first-language/
>
> I have read that Visual D has a better debugging experience, 
> but I need dub support for these projects, and Visual D focuses 
> on Visual Studio integration, something I don’t necessarily 
> want to deal with in teaching these kids

This is truly an understatement about Visual D, the debugging 
experience is at par with the native C++ one in VS. If I was a 
kid from that group, I would feel tormented by the dub/vscode 
experience :) Rainer Schuetze deserves a statue.