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.

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.
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> 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.
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> 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

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.

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Yeah, the forum is the best!