To learn D

[Cym13]

On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 12:00:15 UTC, Binarydepth wrote:
> I've considering learning full D. I remembered that D is not 
> recommended as a first language, So I read time ago.
>
> So my question, is learning C and Python a good intro before 
> learning D?
>
> TY

Both C and Python provide valuable and complementary experience 
no matter what you want to do. If your goal is specifically to 
learn D then I'd learn C up to structures. That way you'll have 
basic tools and vocabulary that you can reuse in D and you can 
learn the rest as you go.

The things that will be hard if you want to learn D directly:

- not as many examples and tutorials on the internet (although 
there are some very good ones)

- lots of concepts and vocabulary (always remember that you 
*don't* have to know every detail of the language, learn what you 
need to solve the problem at hand, one thing at a time)

- not as many libraries, which means that it can be harder to 
solve a problem that not many people have had yet (popular things 
like web applications will be alright)

I think D isn't that bad of a first language. Once you've passed 
the vocabulary barrier you'll get the benefit of having a 
language that'll fit most of your tasks from little scripting or 
web applications to low-level programming and big projects. You 
will be confronted to many concepts and ideas without having to 
learn a new language each time and this knowledge is useful even 
if you decide to use another language later on.