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D is a nice language. It has a wide range of features, but one can get started with it without learning all of them.

Here are a handful of D programs that use various features of the language and some of its libraries, on my blog. Most of them are simple command-line utilities to do various things. Readers may find them of use to get a flavor of the language and to know some of the kinds of things it can be used for.

I used the DMD compiler to compile and run them on Windows.

A few of the posts are about interviews too.

Don't miss the interview where the creators or key people from the C++, Rust, D and Go languages talk to each other on a panel about some of the pros and cons of their respective languages - and incident near the end of the video, involving Bjarne Stroustrup (the LangNext video below).

Porting the text pager from Python to D (DLang):

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2017/04/porting-text-pager-from-...

Simple parallel processing in D with std.parallelism:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/12/simple-parallel-processi...

Video: Interview: GoingNative 6: Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu - D Programming Language:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/11/video-interview-goingnat...

Using std.datetime.StopWatch to time sections of D code:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/11/using-stddatetimestopwat...

Read from CSV with D, write to PDF with Python:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/10/read-from-csv-with-d-wri...

Command line D utility - find files matching a pattern under a directory:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/10/command-line-d-utility-f...