Is D painted into a corner?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 8/28/25 2:51 PM, monkyyy wrote:
 > On Thursday, 28 August 2025 at 21:33:27 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
 >>
 >> The 'old book' pdf seems to be the most current approach, and it
 >> should only be about 3 years old.
 >
 > Its not even close to only 3 years old, it mayve been updated some but
 > its like 15 years old

That's not an accurate guess: I may have started writing pieces of it 15 
years ago but the last update was in February 2022:

   https://bitbucket.org/acehreli/ddili/commits/branch/master

I know I will never get to the level of many programmers on these forums 
but the book was written to teach programming to novices. The fact that 
it uses D is helpful on many levels. There are some old concepts in 
there like OOP and strong exception guarantees but I claim the content 
is still usable today.

I find the book extremely useful myself and use it almost daily to look 
up features of the language.

Ali