Is D painted into a corner?

[monkyyy]

On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 21:33:27 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 19:21:07 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> You already started it, by personally verifying the old book, 
>> you showed several regressions. Great work btw.
>
> Everyone, thanks for your comments.
>
> What would you recommend to learn the current version of D 
> language, for a professional developer familiar with IBM 1620 
> machine language with punch cards, C, C++, Rust, PL/I, Fortran, 
> C# and APL, among others.
>
> The 'old book' pdf seems to be the most current approach, and 
> it should only be about 3 years old.

my stuff:

https://github.com/crazymonkyyy/dingbats //you probaly dont need 
this after reading the book, but my style *cough* is better and 
**far** more terse

https://crazymonkyyy.github.io/blackmagic-in-d/

both obviously in incomplete states.

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If you couldnt read `mycycle` yet get some tatic programming 
propaganda and implement it in d *from scratch*; learn `Voldemort 
types` and some extremely basic template header patterns; and of 
course that ranges are just 3 functions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6I-Kwj-AvY&list=PLVFrD1dmDdvf8REa4SkI-IppFGvkRq83O

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Syntax test, syntax test, syntax test; just try 30 lines of code 
at a time, every time you go to write 100 lines of program, 
verify what you think is possible in a syntax test; and every 
once in a while try something you think is impossible theres 
stuff in there that no one talks about.