Tutorials

• Video tutorials

Best Practices

• Order of import statements
• Portability and performance
• Conventional module name for importing all modules in a package

Common Idioms

Although D inherited much of its syntax from C and C++, the new features that it introduces lead to some common idioms that are unique to D.

• Initializing variables
• Declaring constants
• Looping over integers
• Unittest placement
  • Imports and helper functions only present when compiling with -unittest
• Commenting out code
• Declaring dense multidimensional arrays
• Voldemort types

How To

• Bind D to C
• Compile and link with DMD on Windows
• Link with the Unilink linker on Windows instead of Optlink
• Convert header files with SED
• Define custom print format specifiers
• Function literals
• Getting Started with the D Programming Language -- Mike "Aldacron" Parker
• Implicitly convert a user-defined type to a builtin type
• Output locale character (MBS) to console
• printf
• Promote D Projects
• Regular expressions
• Runtime type information (RTTI)
• Run D in a CGI (web) environment
• Tame OPTLINK
• Run unit tests
• Using NASM with D
• Split file into multidimensional dynamic string array
• D for Win32
• Porting 32 Bit Code to 64 Bits