• aberba (16/16) Jul 19 2020 Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source.
• Andy Balba (10/26) Aug 10 2020 I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this
• aberba (3/8) Aug 11 2020 Yeah, the forum is the best!

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source. 
"Spoiled" by PHP, then JavaScript,..., before deep D, I wondered 
how some people live by not having docs. It may sound like a 
no-brainer but it was not immediately obvious or comfortable to 
do. You can live an entire career without looking up things... 
Imagine you don't get that same exact treatment in a language 
you've come to like.

It turns out sometimes reading code on how things are implemented 
from source code and even porting some to D teaches you things 
you may not otherwise have learnt any other way. The well 
thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all the 
mistakes they may have made before coming up with that 
implementation. I'm learning everyday in d-land.

Can't say the same for some meta-programming monstrosity I've 
comes across though :) Also I still believe documenting code is 
very necessary for quick consumption of public APIs.

Andy Balba <pwplus7 gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 18:39:53 UTC, aberba wrote:
 Sometimes I forget how much value comes with open source. 
 "Spoiled" by PHP, then JavaScript,..., before deep D, I 
 wondered how some people live by not having docs. It may sound 
 like a no-brainer but it was not immediately obvious or 
 comfortable to do. You can live an entire career without 
 looking up things... Imagine you don't get that same exact 
 treatment in a language you've come to like.

 It turns out sometimes reading code on how things are 
 implemented from source code and even porting some to D teaches 
 you things you may not otherwise have learnt any other way. The 
 well thought-out code written by others help you leapfrog all 
 the mistakes they may have made before coming up with that 
 implementation. I'm learning everyday in d-land.

 Can't say the same for some meta-programming monstrosity I've 
 comes across though :) Also I still believe documenting code is 
 very necessary for quick consumption of public APIs.

I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this 
is a very accurate summary of my current journey to master Dlang :

" ... reading code on how things are implemented from source code 
and even porting some to D teaches you things you may not 
otherwise have learnt any other way... well thought-out code 
written by others help you leapfrog all the mistakes they may 
have made before coming up with that implementation. ...I'm 
learning everyday in d-land. " .. Another outstanding Dlang 
feature is this forum

aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 10 August 2020 at 16:27:01 UTC, Andy Balba wrote:
 On Sunday, 19 July 2020 at 18:39:53 UTC, aberba wrote:

 I'm a Dlang newbie from C/C++ as of a month or so ago, and this 
 is a very accurate summary of my current journey to master 
 Dlang :

Hope you have some fun whilst doing that.

 feature is this forum

Yeah, the forum is the best!