Here's looking at you, kid

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/20/2015 09:37 AM, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.
>
> I agree. There's not a lot more that I can see that needs to be changed
> on the website. And Ali's book is really good. Plus, the forum is friendly.

One thing we need to do is deemphasize the "Language Reference" entry in 
the left menu and promote Ali's book to top level. -- Andrei