Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:

https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d

It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

On 02/13/2018 03:35 PM, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
> 
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
> 
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

This topic appeared on Learn a few months ago:

  https://forum.dlang.org/post/or0o85$tvc$1@digitalmars.com

Ali

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

What a great article!

I love the depth of explanation too, that really makes it worthwhile reading.

Seb wrote:

> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

a typo:

	writefln!"%d"(foo");

it should be `"foo"`, i guess. ;-)

great article. now i want to learn D again, it looks so beautiful and powerful! ;-)

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

Typo with "(~200 LoC)" and "> 300 LoCs"?

On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 03:40:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>>
>> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>>
>> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.
>
> Typo with "(~200 LoC)" and "> 300 LoCs"?

Fixed. Thanks!

On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 02:57:28 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Seb wrote:
>
>> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>>
>> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>>
>> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.
>
> a typo:
>
> 	writefln!"%d"(foo");
>
> it should be `"foo"`, i guess. ;-)

Fixed. Thanks!

> great article. now i want to learn D again, it looks so beautiful and powerful! ;-)

Thanks!
Well, you could upstream your fork and go back to "pure" D again ;-)

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

It takes a lot of time and effort to write such quality content. Thanks for detailed explanations.

// import std.algorithm, std.exception, std.format, std.range, std.stdio;
Do you think it is worth mentioning about std.experimental.scripting in section 2?

Syntax highlighting is missing in some snippets.

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>
> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>
> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.

Cool! The contrast of the code is very low (very on light brown?),

On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 07:11:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 23:35:36 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> Someone revived the Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge thread today and I thought this is an excellent opportunity to revive my blog and finally write an article showing why I like D so much:
>>
>> https://seb.wilzba.ch/b/2018/02/the-expressive-c17-coding-challenge-in-d
>>
>> It's mostly targeted at beginners as I explain many basic D features, but maybe it's helpful for beginners looking into D.
>
> Cool! The contrast of the code is very low (very on light brown?),

Thanks for the feedback. Fixed!