On July 29, 2010, Andrei Alexandrescu gave a Google Tech Talk titled, “Three Cool Things About D.” The video is now available. I haven’t watched it yet, so I have no feedback or comments to give. Let me know what you think.
D Bits- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Binding D to C January 8, 2012This is part one of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. This is a topic that has become near and dear to my heart. Derelict is the first, and only, open source project I've ever maintained. It's not a complicated thing. There's very little... […]
- Dolce and Da5teroids December 18, 2011So I've finally gotten started on some game code. In order to see if Dolce is actually useful or a waste of time, I decided to start by porting the A5teroids demo that ships with the Allegro 5 package. Here's what I've learned so far. First, the whole idea of Dolce as a framework on top of Allegro to allow an absolute minimum amount of startup […]
- Dolce Gets Some Love November 17, 2011Once the semester ended, I took a week to do nothing but play Dark Age of Camelot and get some much needed guitar practice in. Then I dove back in to the gym for some long overdue exercise. I also managed to pick up a few more private classes to fill some of the gaps in my schedule. Once I let off all that steam, I fired up... […]
- On My Job, and Some Big D News October 9, 2011Dolce is still very much alive, just getting little attention while I wrap up the second semester at the university. For anyone interested, I'm teaching in a special program where a local university here in Seoul is partnered with a university in America. The students do two semesters here in Korea before moving off to the States for three years. We... […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012
I’m not sure why Andrei didn’t tell them about static and renamed imports when they were getting bothered about symbol conflicts from imports.
But I think they have a good point about suddenly failing to compile not being a great result. If you’re the original programmer you probably know that std.file.copy() was what was meant. But some poor maintenance programmer probably will not know which copy() was meant without a lot of effort. So the default of public imports is a poor choice. Of course this has been argued to no end on the D newsgroups.
I missed the opportunity of mentioning static and renamed imports. It’s simply my being nervous.
The last question was a good one too — “What is the largest application written in D?” There should be a page on digitalmars.com listing cool apps people have written with address where people can send more descriptions and screenshots. “The Qt Bindings” is not such an inspiring answer. That question definitely deserved a book.
That only showed AA’s complete lack of touch with the community.
And that can be a great comment to his book too 
We use D heavily in productive environments since 1,5 years….not every application has yet made it to the public