Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?

In particular, I'm interested in seeing a book that contains super advanced tips on how to use D effectively to achieve highly performanant, flexible, maintainable, and safe code. I mean the kind of book that someone at WekaIO or Sociomantic would have enough knowledge, experience, and a proven D-based product to write such book.

I'd definitely buy this book. I'd even donate to make it happen.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, IM wrote:
> Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?
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> In particular, I'm interested in seeing a book that contains super advanced tips on how to use D effectively to achieve highly performanant, flexible, maintainable, and safe code. I mean the kind of book that someone at WekaIO or Sociomantic would have enough knowledge, experience, and a proven D-based product to write such book.
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> I'd definitely buy this book. I'd even donate to make it happen.

I started jotting down ideas for an Effective D book.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 12:55:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
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> I started jotting down ideas for an Effective D book.

I'd buy it.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, IM wrote:
> Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?


Not a book, but I've written 70+ articles here: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ (with some external contribution too). Effective D without the haircut.

The problem of "Effective D" is that:
- usage cases are still being discovered, you are making up the culture as you go

- it's not clear the language have enough accidental complexity to fill entire series of books.

If D would add complexity we could have our own "50 tips for your D team at scale". I'm hopeful for all the new DIPs to bring a bit more confusion.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, IM wrote:
> Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?
>
> In particular, I'm interested in seeing a book that contains super advanced tips on how to use D effectively to achieve highly performanant, flexible, maintainable, and safe code. I mean the kind of book that someone at WekaIO or Sociomantic would have enough knowledge, experience, and a proven D-based product to write such book.
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> I'd definitely buy this book. I'd even donate to make it happen.

I think the point of D is that one would not need such a book.
In sociomantc and weka-io, I'd think it's less about D and more about knowing the quirks of the linux kernel.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 13:06:02 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 12:55:37 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
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>> I started jotting down ideas for an Effective D book.
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> I'd buy it.

Awesome! I'd buy it too. Thanks!

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 13:49:15 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, IM wrote:
>> Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?
>
>
> Not a book, but I've written 70+ articles here: https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/ (with some external contribution too). Effective D without the haircut.
>

Just checked the list of topics. Indeed seems very useful. I need to take the time to go through all the items. Thanks for the effort!

> The problem of "Effective D" is that:
> - usage cases are still being discovered, you are making up the culture as you go
>
> - it's not clear the language have enough accidental complexity to fill entire series of books.
>
> If D would add complexity we could have our own "50 tips for your D team at scale". I'm hopeful for all the new DIPs to bring a bit more confusion.

On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 15:06:11 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 November 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, IM wrote:
>> Does anybody have a plan to write a book titled "Effective D"; similar to Effective Java, and Effective C++?
>>
>> In particular, I'm interested in seeing a book that contains super advanced tips on how to use D effectively to achieve highly performanant, flexible, maintainable, and safe code. I mean the kind of book that someone at WekaIO or Sociomantic would have enough knowledge, experience, and a proven D-based product to write such book.
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>> I'd definitely buy this book. I'd even donate to make it happen.
>
> I think the point of D is that one would not need such a book.
> In sociomantc and weka-io, I'd think it's less about D and more about knowing the quirks of the linux kernel.

I agree that's the point of D, but the reality is that gotchas (and bugs) exist.

A book that I'd like to see, would be one with famous C/C++ algorithms converted to D showing the advantages of this language.

Because sometimes I write D but my code seems pretty much like the other languages.

Al.

On Friday, 2 November 2018 at 12:42:17 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
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> I agree that's the point of D, but the reality is that gotchas (and bugs) exist.

Of course, Effective C++ covers more than just how to avoid gotchas and bugs. It's more like a best practices kind of book.