• Michalis (14/14) Mar 06 2016 Hello everyone,
• Rikki Cattermole (4/16) Mar 06 2016 Awesome!
• Michalis (17/45) Mar 07 2016 At this point I'm still a noob so still haven't gone through all
• Rikki Cattermole (3/42) Mar 07 2016 It was going to be (port of SWT), but it never ended up as such although...
• Tourist (3/4) Mar 06 2016 For completeness... Do you have experience with C#?
• Chris Wright (3/9) Mar 06 2016 They said they use Mono, which means C# or VB or F#. Maybe Nemerle. But
• Michalis (10/19) Mar 07 2016 Yes, I work with C# (using the Mono framework using the

Michalis <brotenet gmail.com> writes:

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!!

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

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 :)

Michalis <brotenet gmail.com> writes:

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?

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.. :)

Rikki Cattermole <alphaglosined gmail.com> writes:

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.. :)

Tourist <gravatar gravatar.com> writes:

Cool!

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 14:19:21 UTC, Michalis wrote:
 Even though Java is still my favorite...

Chris Wright <dhasenan gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:02:20 +0000, Tourist wrote:

 Cool!
 
 On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 14:19:21 UTC, Michalis wrote:
 Even though Java is still my favorite...

 

Michalis <brotenet gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 17:06:12 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
 On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:02:20 +0000, Tourist wrote:

 Cool!
 
 On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 14:19:21 UTC, Michalis wrote:
 Even though Java is still my favorite...

 






MonoDevelop IDE) at work.
We prefer .Mono instead of .Net framework mainly for its platform 
interoperability as well as the fact that .Mono projects are far 
easier and faster to work with than VisualStudio projects.


because ...well ..VisualStudio

As for VB, I've had enough of it when I was working at my 1st 
employer.. horrible.. ;)