The most enjoyable programming language I've ever used

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/03/16 7:57 AM, Michalis wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 14:23:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 07/03/16 3:19 AM, Michalis wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I just started learning D yesterday evening and at this point I started
>>> playing around with vibe-d and the database connector libraries..
>>>
>>> I just have one thing to say about D and that is ...WOW!!
>>>
>>> By profession I'm a Java, .Mono and Python developer working on Linux
>>> and I've been a Java/Linux fan-boy for all my life, but I kind of went
>>> through almost every programming and scripting language I could get my
>>> hands on (Rust, GoLang, Perl... even those Javascript off-springs like
>>> TypeScript) but none of them ever topped Java.. until I bumped onto D..
>>>
>>> Even though Java is still my favorite,
>>> I must say that D is definitely the most enjoyable programming language
>>> I've ever used!!
>>
>>
>> Awesome!
>> Do you have any suggestions for e.g. the docs?
>> Feedback is welcome :)
>
> At this point I'm still a noob so still haven't gone through all the
> docs yet.
> Up until now I find the Docs site extremely helpful and well designed,
> and I also like the fact that when I installed D through the package
> manager, everything was neatly taken care along with a desktop version
> of the docs site.
>
> I have one general question, since I see the DWT library mentioned as
> part of the main ecosystem.
> Is DWT considered as the official UI framework?

It was going to be (port of SWT), but it never ended up as such although 
it is maintained still.

> With Java I use SWT for desktop and RWT (part of Eclipse RAP) for web UI
> development as my main framework, and if DWT is to be the official UI
> for D, then that would be great news for me.
> I did not find DWT though in the DUB repository, so at this point I've
> checked it out from Git.
> Having a few issues when compiling for 64bit, but that I guess is
> something that I'll take care of along the way.. :)
>