Thanks again for all the responses. I've made tremendous
progress understanding the D build process.
I'm thinking I will probably create a more in depth GTK+ hello
world that attempts to covers some of the current D landscape.
For instance I now understand how DMD and RDMD work and how they
are different from one another. But I do not yet understand how
to use DUB, or why I would choose it over one of the many other
build systems such as CMakeD2, DSSS, XfBuild, Bud, RDMD, or
premake4. Especially DSSS vs DUB. Is DUB a replacement for DSSS?
I also don't understand why there are multiple code repositories
and where to find what (http://code.dlang.org vs
http://www.dsource.org/projects/). I understand that Open Source
is decentralized, but when you're talking about a relatively
small user group like D it seems very confusing.
Last, I've been in the Java/C# world so long that I don't
understand why I need to provide the source code to statically
link a *.lib file. I started exploring dynamic link libraries,
and this too seems very confusing to me. Perhaps there is a
better way to do this? Perhaps I just don't understand it well
enough yet?
Next on my list is to attempt to create a Glade hello world in D.
Can I host a tutorial here on dlang.org? If so does it belong
under "How-tos" or "Articles"?
