Hi, I'm mostly a lurker in these Forums but sometimes I post here and there, my first language was C and I still use today together with my own library (A Helper) which is like a poor version of STB (https://github.com/nothings/stb).

I usually use D language sometimes as C on steroids, using AA and GC and some other features, but I never entered in this realm very deeply.

I always wanted to dive in and I always postponed, but I decided to go a littler deeper, and I thought about going with The D Programming Language, but as I see it is from 2010, and I wonder if is it a good resource to go currently?

I don't care about the age of the book, since I learned C in late 90's with Kernighan and Ritchie "The C Programming Language", but at time C was "stable", now I think D maybe has evolved much more in these 14 years, so I'm a bit on the fence.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

Thanks,

Matheus.

On Monday, January 15, 2024 7:25:32 PM MST matheus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Hi, I'm mostly a lurker in these Forums but sometimes I post here and there, my first language was C and I still use today together with my own library (A Helper) which is like a poor version of STB (https://github.com/nothings/stb).
>
> I usually use D language sometimes as C on steroids, using AA and GC and some other features, but I never entered in this realm very deeply.
>
> I always wanted to dive in and I always postponed, but I decided to go a littler deeper, and I thought about going with The D Programming Language, but as I see it is from 2010, and I wonder if is it a good resource to go currently?
>
> I don't care about the age of the book, since I learned C in late 90's with Kernighan and Ritchie "The C Programming Language", but at time C was "stable", now I think D maybe has evolved much more in these 14 years, so I'm a bit on the fence.
>
> Any thoughts or recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matheus.

>From what I recall, it's mostly still correct, but there are things in there
that have since changed or which were never implemented (e.g. synchronized classes never became a thing; synchronized functions still exist, but TDPL talks about them being replaced with synchronized classes and that never happened - and likely will never happen). There's also an errata for it, but AFAIK, that just fixes some mistakes it; it doesn't update it. This wiki entry tries to list some of the differences, but I expect that it also is rather out-of-date at this point:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Differences_With_TDPL

So, TDPL is a good resource, but you have to take into account the fact that some of the details are wrong, which you may not want to do. In that respect, Ali's book would likely work better:

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html

It was written more recently, and I'm pretty sure that Ali has updated it on some basis. I fully expect that there are things that you'd get out of TDPL that you wouldn't get from Ali's book, so there's definitely something to said for reading both, but again, whether that makes sense largely depends on whether you want to deal with figuring out which parts of TDPL are still valid.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 02:58:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, January 15, 2024 7:25:32 PM MST matheus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> [...]
>
>>[...]
> that have since changed or which were never implemented (e.g. synchronized classes never became a thing; synchronized functions still exist, but TDPL talks about them being replaced with synchronized classes and that never happened - and likely will never happen). There's also an errata for it, but AFAIK, that just fixes some mistakes it; it doesn't update it. This wiki entry tries to list some of the differences, but I expect that it also is rather out-of-date at this point:
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Differences_With_TDPL
>
> So, TDPL is a good resource, but you have to take into account the fact that some of the details are wrong, which you may not want to do. In that respect, Ali's book would likely work better:
>
> http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
>
> It was written more recently, and I'm pretty sure that Ali has updated it on some basis. I fully expect that there are things that you'd get out of TDPL that you wouldn't get from Ali's book, so there's definitely something to said for reading both, but again, whether that makes sense largely depends on whether you want to deal with figuring out which parts of TDPL are still valid.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I'll also add that Adam's Book (D Cookbook) and Mike Parkers Book (Learning D) are both excellent. Mike's is mostly up to date, minus I think the post-blit function calls. Adam's has lots of various samples (may be good to read alongside, or otherwise after Ali or Mike's book once you have a feel for the language).

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 02:25:32 UTC, matheus wrote:
> ...

I'll reply to myself but I just would like to say thanks to Jonathan M Davis and Mike Shah.

I started with TDPL but I'll fill my knowledge with the other suggestions you gave me.

Thanks again,

Matheus.

On Tuesday, 16 January 2024 at 02:25:32 UTC, matheus wrote:
> Hi, I'm mostly a lurker in these Forums but sometimes I post here and there, my first language was C and I still use today together with my own library (A Helper) which is like a poor version of STB (https://github.com/nothings/stb).
>
> [...]

I suggest also Ali book, Programming in D, is excellent [1]

[1] http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html