Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

[default0 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:49:14 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:51:57 UTC, default0 wrote:
>> As this isn't really a question for Learn I'm not sure if it 
>> fits here. This is more of a "This is how I went about trying 
>> to learn X. These are the problems I encountered. Ideas to 
>> improve?" but I guess I might as well post it here.
>
> Thanks for sharing! Obviously Phobos documentation could and 
> should be improved, people are working on it but unlike some 
> other languages there's nobody in D community working full time 
> on documentation and articles. And D user base is still quite 
> small, so Stack Overflow is not quite overflown with D-related 
> answers.
>
> Out of curiosity I looked into "D Cookbook" to check if it 
> contains your particular case but the only mention of Base64 
> there is about encoding some data into Base64, not the other 
> way around.

Well if I post this as a question to SO and link it here, would 
you mind answering it? Maybe we should make this a general 
scheme: If someone has trouble learning something, just ask the 
question directly on SO and have someone answer it there. SO is 
way easier to google than this learn forum or the documentation 
on dlang. And every single question that gets answered may be 
helpful to others trying to do the same :)