[HN Gopher] Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
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       Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference
        
       Author : teleforce
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-04-25 20:06 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Daunk wrote:
       | I feel like D is such an underrated language.
        
         | WalterBright wrote:
         | We're not good at marketing! But we're very good at language
         | ergonomics.
        
       | kingbob000 wrote:
       | Love 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.
        
         | bsdooby wrote:
         | Utah Valley University? Or Romania, or Turkey? And why is D's
         | usage hard to justify (because of Rust and/or contemporary
         | C++)?
        
           | acehreli wrote:
           | 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=PLvv0ScY6vfd9
           | Fso-3cB4C...
        
             | MikeShah wrote:
             | We have also been using D for computer graphics and game
             | programming as of this year! :D
        
       | jpecar wrote:
       | Is D runtime still crashing when host has more than 128 cpu
       | cores? I learned this the hard way ...
        
       | bsdooby wrote:
       | One of the best language reference manuals out there...
        
         | bsdooby wrote:
         | ...could need an update, though.
        
       | acehreli wrote:
       | Author here... AMA.
        
         | bsdooby wrote:
         | Planning on an update? Some new features made it into the
         | language (I think).
        
           | acehreli wrote:
           | All I need is another wave of motivation. I'm searching. :)
        
       | bachmeier wrote:
       | Been 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.
        
         | acehreli wrote:
         | 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...
        
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