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digitalmars.D.announce - Article about "Applied D"

reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
Dear Dees,

Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. The 
article deals with the "usability" of D and how it helped to 
solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, concurrency, 
unit tests and the like. Just about how "practical" it is.

Here it is, warts and all: 
http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/

Comments are welcome. If you think it's interesting enough, we 
can post it to gamedev. Although I think it is not very "techy".
Jul 30 2013
next sibling parent reply "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Chris:


 http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/



[Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code)<


Is that true?


For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its 
site isn't down).

Bye,
bearophile
Jul 30 2013
parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 14:21:06 UTC, bearophile wrote:

 Chris:


 http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/



[Python] copyright issues (easily decompilable byte code)<


 Is that true?


 For small D examples I suggest the Rosettacode site (when its 
 site isn't down).

 Bye,
 bearophile


It was an issue with the legal department. A compiled D binary 
might be a harder nut to crack, especially for the "casual 
cracker" who wants to give it a go when s/he sees a .pyc file. 
Same goes for Java. But if you know something that might interest 
me, please tell me.
Jul 30 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent 
Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really hyped 
about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all the 
functional programming hype.

One thing that caught my eye:

"I also recommend the book The D Programming Language by Alexei 
Alexandrescu. The author not only describes the language but also 
explains the reasoning behind the language design. Apart from 
learning about D, you learn a lot about programming in general, 
and believe it or not, it’s also fun to read."

I have to agree, Andrei has a great writing style. I've read TDPL 
through 3 times now, and I can't say that there's any section 
that I find dry or boring.
Jul 30 2013
next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote:

 It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent Hacker News,
 and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a language is
 "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functional programming hype.

 One thing that caught my eye:

 "I also recommend the book The D Programming Language by Alexei
 Alexandrescu. The author not only describes the language but also
 explains the reasoning behind the language design. Apart from learning
 about D, you learn a lot about programming in general, and believe it or
 not, it’s also fun to read."


They should've called me Alexei Andreescu!

Andrei
Jul 30 2013
parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 19:04:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 On 7/30/13 8:47 AM, Meta wrote:

 It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent 
 Hacker News,
 and one thing that seems to get people really hyped about a 
 language is
 "Getting Things Done", as well as all the functional 
 programming hype.

 One thing that caught my eye:

 "I also recommend the book The D Programming Language by Alexei
 Alexandrescu. The author not only describes the language but 
 also
 explains the reasoning behind the language design. Apart from 
 learning
 about D, you learn a lot about programming in general, and 
 believe it or
 not, it’s also fun to read."


 They should've called me Alexei Andreescu!

 Andrei


Ha ha ha! I've altered your ego.
Jul 30 2013
prev sibling parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 15:47:29 UTC, Meta wrote:

 It's a good "why should I care about D" article. I frequent 
 Hacker News, and one thing that seems to get people really 
 hyped about a language is "Getting Things Done", as well as all 
 the functional programming hype.


That was the reason why I wrote this short article. To share my 
own experience and to show people that it is a "real world" 
language that helps to solve real problems. Benchmarking and 
feature comparison alone will never convince people, because the 
first question is usually along the lines of "What can the 
language do for me? Is it easy? I don't want to spend much time 
learning a new language!" Then they ask if there are any useful 
libraries (C interfacing) and if it's portable. Nobody wants to 
write the code more than once. Part of Java's and later Android's 
success was exactly this.
Jul 30 2013
prev sibling parent reply "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 13:53:24 UTC, Chris wrote:

 Dear Dees,

 Here is the article. I've set up a (temporary?) blog for it. 
 The article deals with the "usability" of D and how it helped 
 to solve certain problems. It's not about benchmarking, 
 concurrency, unit tests and the like. Just about how 
 "practical" it is.

 Here it is, warts and all: 
 http://wendlerchristoph.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/probably-d/

 Comments are welcome. If you think it's interesting enough, we 
 can post it to gamedev. Although I think it is not very "techy".


Good one, worth sharing. As a D user I'd probably love to see 
more technical details but for a wider public it is a solid 
match. Though you will almost certainly be asked about how you 
have handled phone platform in the end, may be worth mentioning 
it explicitly. As D is not there yet guess web fallback is used?
Jul 30 2013
parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 30 July 2013 at 17:23:34 UTC, Dicebot wrote:

 Good one, worth sharing. As a D user I'd probably love to see 
 more technical details but for a wider public it is a solid 
 match.


The technical details are rather boring. Good old OOP and I made 
use of D's structs and some other nice features. Nothing a D 
user, in fact any programmer, would not be familiar with.


 Though you will almost certainly be asked about how you have 
 handled phone platform in the end, may be worth mentioning it 
 explicitly. As D is not there yet guess web fallback is used?


This is a good point! I haven't tackled mobile phones yet, and I 
doubt that it will be easy. I didn't include it in the article 
because I have no experience with D on mobile yet. However, I 
hope that D will get there. In the meantime, there is the web, as 
you said.
Jul 30 2013