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I once owned a Phobos-based book on D, long gone, what is the latest book out there?
Apr 01
Sergey
Apr 02
Mike Shah
Apr 02
matheus
Apr 02
Dukc
Apr 02
Sergey
April 01

I'm looking for the greatest Dlang book ever written. There's probably only one or two though, but which one is the best.

Thanks.

April 01

On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:

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I'm looking for the greatest Dlang book ever written. There's probably only one or two though, but which one is the best.

Thanks.

Ali’s book

April 01

On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:

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I'm looking for the greatest Dlang book ever written. There's probably only one or two though, but which one is the best.

Thanks.

The D programming language by Andrei Alexandrescu is a nice read even though it is somewhat dated.


Dmitry Olshansky
https://olshansky.me

April 02

On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:

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I'm looking for the greatest Dlang book ever written. There's probably only one or two though, but which one is the best.

Thanks.

Mike Parker's book and Ali's both pair well.

April 02
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:
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D Cookbook by Adam D. Ruppe is very well received on amazon and for what I see very effective. In covers a variety of topics.

Matheus.
April 02

On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:

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I'm looking for the greatest Dlang book ever written. There's probably only one or two though, but which one is the best.

Thanks.

This reminds me that there is a book about D that I haven't read and have never seen mentioned here at the forums, by Victor Porton.

I have no idea how we have not ever mentioned it here. I should know because I knew the book exists, yet I haven't written about it until now. At least someone has added it to the D wiki.

To be frank, I don't have that high expectations of the book. The author did write a few DIPs, pull requests and blog posts here a few years ago, and in my opinion he came up as well-intentioned but somehow simple-minded. Like, if you have the misfortune to suffer from some learning disability or otherwise a bit lacking in prequisites to learn programming but still want to try learning D, maybe his explaining style is great. But for the rest of us, not so much.

April 02

On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 11:44:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:

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This reminds me that there is a book about D that I haven't read and have never seen mentioned here at the forums, by Victor Porton.

I don't remember hearing about him or his (self-published) book, but it's the most expensive Kindle book I've ever seen, and his bio starts with "From childhood I decided to become a great mathematician, now I am."

April 02

On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 15:07:07 UTC, Lance Bachmeier wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 11:44:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:

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This reminds me that there is a book about D that I haven't read and have never seen mentioned here at the forums, by Victor Porton.

I don't remember hearing about him or his (self-published) book, but it's the most expensive Kindle book I've ever seen, and his bio starts with "From childhood I decided to become a great mathematician, now I am."

Apparently also posts really strange stuff and claims to be a Rust developer.

April 02

On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 11:44:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:

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On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 09:21:39 UTC, Daniel Donnelly, Jr. wrote:
here a few years ago, and in my opinion he came up as well-intentioned but somehow simple-minded. Like, if you have the misfortune to suffer from some learning disability or otherwise a bit lacking in prequisites to learn programming but still want to try learning D, maybe his explaining style is great. But for the rest of us, not so much.

I've partially read the book - a lot of typos and not look like a book, more like some notes from the developer.

I recommend concentrate on Ali's and Andrei's book