Effective D book?

[Elvis]

On Saturday, 15 June 2013 at 02:17:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, June 14, 2013 20:29:09 monarch_dodra wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 15:38:02 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>> > Any plans on that now that language is stable enough? Andrei
>> > authoring maybe?
>> 
>> Who would write it?
>
> I'm a bit reticent to bring it up given that I won't be done 
> anytime soon, but
> I actually started writing such a book following DConf. After 
> Andrew brought
> up the possibility of Effective D in his talk and all of the 
> talk that occurred
> at DConf about doing more with tutorials and publishing best 
> practices, I
> decided that I'd give it shot.
>
> And while I'm sure that there's plenty more best practices that 
> we'll figure
> out over time, and some of what we do know has been shifting as 
> we learn, I
> think that we do know enough at this point about best practices 
> in D to fill
> such a book.
>
> Interestingly enough, based on Andrei's suggestions, I'm 
> writing it using ddoc
> so that it can easily be converted into latex, html, and e-book 
> formats rather
> than being tied to any particular format (I was going to use 
> latex, but Andrei
> thought that a macro language would be better as latex is very 
> tied to physical
> print and fixed layouts). It'll probably be the first book ever 
> to be written
> entirely in ddoc.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Good jobs, I'm very much looking forward to reading it!