Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Chris Molozian]

Ok, Ddoc is great at writing D documentation, that's what it was 
designed for. Why use a tool designed for code documentation as a web 
templating language? Aren't we (as programmers) always saying use the 
right tool for the right job...

I understand Ddoc's advantages 
<http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ddoc.html> now. No-one is saying Ddoc 
is hard to learn (at least I'm not saying that) but with so many tools, 
languages and frameworks to learn these days should it be necessary to 
know it when you're a D enthusiast that wants to contribute a HTML 
tutorial on d-programming-language.org.

My 2-cents,

Chris


On 06/29/11 12:25, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/29/2011 1:38 AM, James Fisher wrote:
>> However, the case for using
>> it for the website
>> <https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/blob/master/index.dd> 
>>
>> is nonexistent (anyone disagree?).
>
> I do. Ddoc is:
>
> 1. Rather trivial to learn & use. A website/book/community devoted to 
> how to use it is completely unnecessary. It's fairly obvious how to 
> use it (for someone with a basic familiarity with HTML) by simply 
> looking at a couple examples.
>
> 2. It automatically tracks the D language, so D code examples are 
> always properly highlighted.
>
> 3. It is always available and installed for anyone who installs D.
>
> 4. The D compiler and Ddoc are always in sync. No begging for updates 
> from 3rd parties, no lags even if they get right on incorporating 
> necessary updates.
>
> 5. It is not necessary to direct anyone to install some third party 
> system that may not even exist on all the platforms D does. In 
> general, we try to minimize dependency on things that are not default 
> installed across operating systems.
>
> 6. And lastly, it works, it delivers, and has for many years. It's 
> proven its worth.
>
>
> If a professional web designer uses famous system X to develop with, 
> and if we used famous system Y, it's just as much a barrier for him to 
> relearn how to do things with Y as it is to learn Ddoc.
>
> Please don't be too dismissive of the productivity gains from using 
> Ddoc. At the time we started using it, the website and the Phobos 
> documentation improved by huge leaps and bounds, simply because it was 
> so easy to generate decent documentation with Ddoc.
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