• Marcin Szymczak (8/8) Jul 10 2015 Hello dear D community.
• Joakim (4/13) Jul 10 2015 Bearophile, I feel like you could do a weekly TWiD series,
• jmh530 (10/19) Jul 10 2015 It looks well done. Us D beginners could definitely benefit from

"Marcin Szymczak" <m_szymczak o2.pl> writes:

Hello dear D community.
While browsing reddit i stumbled upon a very nice tutorial for 
Rust programming language 
(http://nbaksalyar.github.io/2015/07/10/writing-chat-in-rust.html). I have to
admit that it is very good, providing the reader with a real-life example of
language usage, explains the ideology and proper style of programming in said
language and most of all, teaches how to write good idiomatic code.

I think that D community could really benefit from creating 
something similar, a real-life project tutorial, which is able to 
show off great D capabilities, introduce to idiomatic and proper 
way of coding and spread the word to the greater audience.

"Joakim" <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:

On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 19:43:06 UTC, Marcin Szymczak wrote:
 Hello dear D community.
 While browsing reddit i stumbled upon a very nice tutorial for 
 Rust programming language 
 (http://nbaksalyar.github.io/2015/07/10/writing-chat-in-rust.html). I have to
admit that it is very good, providing the reader with a real-life example of
language usage, explains the ideology and proper style of programming in said
language and most of all, teaches how to write good idiomatic code.

 I think that D community could really benefit from creating 
 something similar, a real-life project tutorial, which is able 
 to show off great D capabilities, introduce to idiomatic and 
 proper way of coding and spread the word to the greater 
 audience.

Bearophile, I feel like you could do a weekly TWiD series, 
breaking down one of your numerous Rosetta Code entries every 
week.

"jmh530" <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 19:43:06 UTC, Marcin Szymczak wrote:
 Hello dear D community.
 While browsing reddit i stumbled upon a very nice tutorial for 
 Rust programming language 
 (http://nbaksalyar.github.io/2015/07/10/writing-chat-in-rust.html). I have to
admit that it is very good, providing the reader with a real-life example of
language usage, explains the ideology and proper style of programming in said
language and most of all, teaches how to write good idiomatic code.

 I think that D community could really benefit from creating 
 something similar, a real-life project tutorial, which is able 
 to show off great D capabilities, introduce to idiomatic and 
 proper way of coding and spread the word to the greater 
 audience.

It looks well done. Us D beginners could definitely benefit from 
more tutorials like this illustrating some of the cooler things 
you can do. There were a number of things I don't think I really 
understood until I started looking at the code in std.range and 
std.algorithm.

One cool thing you can do in Rust is return an rvalue from a { } 
scope. The only problem is then things start getting a little 
confusing about when to use a semi-colon or not (I'd prefer just 
re-using return).