I was just wondering what people thought about the "new" d language and what sort of impact its gonna make

It's not really new, it's been around for a while. It looks pretty good, if I remember correctly it's strongly based around C and it's aiming to be the next big game programming language.

There's a guy called Kenta Cho, he makes damn good games, and they're written in D.

Check out some of his games, they can be found at:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/free/index.html

thats pretty cool, but for some reason the writing on that page shows up as these funny squiggles on my machine, hmmmmm i wonder what could be wrong?

I've used it before, I've made a snippet explaining Nested Functions in D, in the Other Languages snippet repository (click).

I'd probably rather it over C++ if it became more popular, but the .NET framework + languages have sparked my imagination more than any other toolkit.

so if i wanted to start playing with game development and i have no serious experience with c++, it wouldn't be a bad idea to learn d instead?

Perhaps you don't read Japanese? I see the normal mismash of kanji, katakana, hiragana, and romanji you'd expect from a .jp domain. If it doesn't look like Japanese, you just don't have the right fonts installed.

whoa there, before i come off looking like a complete moron(perhaps too late ) i was being sarcastic, although didn't know it was japanese i kinda guessed it was some oriental language. Although whats the deal, half the people on this site seem to speak Japanese anyway, is there something I missed? Like a prerequisite course in Programming that i slept through or something? Java, Information Theory, Database design and Japanese 101

No worries, so was I to some extent. You just sounded very sincere.

You seem to have been ignored because of Japanese, so I'll take up this question.

Yeah, you could get away with it. When it comes to choosing a language that you're going to learn, try taking some of the important things into consideration:

• Does the syntax make sense to you?
• What is the language most used for? Does it apply to what you want to make?
• How widely used is the language? Is it one that employers would be impressed with, or does no one even know what it is?

Personally, I think the syntax is pretty straight forward.
It's used mostly for game development.
BUT, it's not very widely used. Yet. Could it be expanding? I think so. Would this be a worthy investment of your time? I think it might be, but it might not pay off for a while yet.

I actually had to make a similar decision to you~ I was going to start learning D before I learned C++

But IMO, C++ is much more developed than D at the moment. (Although I could be wrong, I didn't look in to it as much as I should've done, really.)

Whatever you decide, you're still gonna be learning something. And if you don't already know any programming languages, then the first will probably stick with you a bit more than the others.

Oh yeah, the first language will also be the one to teach you the logic behind programming.

Hope this helps
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yeah it was thanks



got me thinking that i'd probably get more use out of whatever i learn of c++.

thanks again