Getting started with D - Phobos documentation sucks

Mr. Anonymous mailnew4ster at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 08:53:45 PDT 2012


On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 15:46:36 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> On Saturday, 29 September 2012 at 15:29:46 UTC, Mr. Anonymous 
> wrote:
>>> 1. Browse the documentations of the std.string, std.array, 
>>> std.algorithm, and std.range modules.
>>
>> OK, let's open the D website and browse the documentation of 
>> std.string:
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html
>>
>> What do we see? A bunch of links that look like SEO tags of a 
>> spam website, followed by a mess of anything - structs, 
>> classes, functions, and what not.
>>
>> Compare this with, e.g., an msdn reference.....
>
> Just remembering that most of the things that you see here is 
> made by the community itself and the most important, it's free.
>
> But well this is not an excuse, but anyway, Microsoft come 
> doing this since long time ago and was not always as you see 
> today.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying somebody owes me something.
I love D and appreciate the effort the community puts in it, 
otherwise I probably wouldn't write this post.

I'm just saying that, in my opinion, it's a high priority and it 
has to be addressed, so that newcomers would be able to get 
started with D.


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