Sunshine and eating cake

Yesterday the first day this spring I had the opportunity to sit in the sunshine on my balcony. With a cup of coffee and my Samsung Tab S6 I had planned to read from the book "D Web Development". I could barely see there were letters on the page, no chance to read anything on the tab screen. Luckily I could switch to my Kindle Paper White, it is better than a paper book in the sunshine, a pity its only black and white and the screen resolution is not something to write home to mummy about. Out in the sunshine however it is great. Unfortunately the book is some years old and as with all "computer books", very few example works, "D Web Development" is no exception. My friends try to talk sense to me. " 'D' is a dead end, go for something else" (pun intended). But I still am determined, I will try to learn 'D' and now is the time, at the moment I have no steady assignment and I'm thinking about real retirement. When I was retired some years ago, I said from now on I only work with things I find fun. Still up to this day I have not worked with anything fun only boring $jobs. Many years ago I read about 'D' and I found it very interesting and I have started three times i.e. written the 'Hello World" program, but stopped as I did not have the time. I do one last attempt. the thing interesting me is the "low level" possibilities with 'D' and that it is a bit different and not used by many. All these things appeal to me, but mostly of course it is a well designed language. But the thing that really makes me tick, 'D' has both high level and low level constructs, you can go high and low. Ilike low level programming but I recognize high level is often more productive. With 'D' you can have the cake and eat it too. At least I hope so. For now I hope it will not be to difficult to make the example in the book work, in that case I probably give up.