Here's looking at you, kid

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 14:15:32 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 08:51:13 UTC, Warwick wrote:
>> many visitors are ending up using language reference to learn 
>> D.
>>
>> Or they use that reference to get their first impressions.
>
> Then they're fools.
>
> In order to go to the link "D Reference" on dlang.org, your 
> eyes have to scan past the "Getting Started" link and you have 
> to purposely decide not to click on it. If I wanted to get up 
> and running with a language, I wouldn't ignore the page that 
> was obviously meant to help me.
>
> Even if they didn't see the link, the FIRST result if you 
> google "D language tutorial" is Ali's book. I'm really not sure 
> what else can be done to help people.

Yep, what can one say.

1. Who goes to the language reference, when they want to _learn_ 
a language?
2. If you really want to learn a language, you will learn it. 
There are enough resources for D now, there's room for 
improvement, but there always is.

I know, catering for the "one second attention span" crowd is a 
recipe for success, if you deal with PHP or JS. But D is not in 
that league. Even if you cater for them, they will soon be 
frustrated anyway, because for D you'll need a deeper 
understanding of things, sooner or later.