Author here... AMA.
Planning on an update? Some new features made it into the language (I think).
All I need is another wave of motivation. I'm searching. :)
Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
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Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#12Love D! I used it a bit in college when it was required for a programming language class. It's hard to justify using it nowadays though.
Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary C++)?
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#13Love D! I used it a bit in college when it was required for a programming language class. It's hard to justify using it nowadays though.
Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary C++)?
Mike Shah has been using D for teaching software engineering at Northeastern University and Yale. Here is his DLang playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso-3cB4C...
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#14Been a heavy user of the language since 2013. This book was very helpful at the time. I don't think it was a book at that time, though, more a lengthy collection of notes as I recall.
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#15Been a heavy user of the language since 2013. This book was very helpful at the time. I don't think it was a book at that time, though, more a lengthy collection of notes as I recall.
Exactly. It really was a happy accident. I talked about it here: https://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/29/programming-in-d-a-happy-a...
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary C++)?
Mike Shah has been using D for teaching software engineering at Northeastern University and Yale. Here is his DLang playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvv0ScY6vfd9Fso-3cB4C...
We have also been using D for computer graphics and game programming as of this year! :D
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#17Love D! I used it a bit in college when it was required for a programming language class. It's hard to justify using it nowadays though.
Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary C++)?
Yes, UVU. And also yes. If I find myself needing something low-level and performant, I have a hard time justifying the ramp-up time required to use D since there is a near zero chance I would use it in my current or future employment. While that isn't always how I decide what technologies to use in my personal time, it definitely is a factor that tips the scales towards a more mainstream language
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#18Is D runtime still crashing when host has more than 128 cpu cores? I learned this the hard way ...
Are you talking about "Issue 24254 - LDC crash on Epyc Bergamo"?
That was fixed within the week, with a notification given that it had been sent to the reporter.
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#19Currently I'm working on adding an AArch64 code generator to the venerable dmd D compiler. It's fun as it's completely differernt from the X86_64. In some ways very clever and in some ways completely wacky.
Re: Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
#20I tried D several years ago, and liked the language. I didn't stick with it because of the lack of libraries compared to perl, python, C++, etc.