Cookbook

The Cookbook is a community-created collection of practical examples, guides and advice for accomplishing common tasks in D.

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Guides

Compiler Checklist for optimal portability and performance

Data Handling When to use const and immutable

Recipes

Building Minimalistic cross-platform Makefile Math Custom data type with overloaded operators Meta Programming Combining structs (Draft; Novice) Creating a subtype using struct template (Draft; Novice) Dispatching an object based on its dynamic type (Draft; Novice) Exception re-throwing helper (Draft; Novice) Finding all Functions in a Module (Draft; Novice) Logging mechanisms (Draft; Novice) Simple custom compile-time DSL (Draft; Novice) Using string mixins for logging (Deprecated; Novice)

Parsing Parse a JSON file, make some changes, and save it again Strings and Text Converting strings between ASCII and Unicode and others (Novice, D2, D1)