My programming and teaching blog

Intro to D metaprogramming - Creating a JSON serialiser

Created 31/10/2019 | Updated 07/05/2020 Status: finished

A series of blog posts that cover how to create a basic JSON serialiser in D, while teaching several different aspects of D's metaprogramming, such as templates; template arguments; function contracts; static if; static foreach; mixins; and more.

  1. Serialising basic D types
  2. Serialising basic D types - Alternative function layout
  3. Serialising structs
  4. Serialising enums and classes
  5. Serialising arrays
  6. Using UDAs for customisation
  7. Mixin template to automate static deserialise
dlang, tutorial, metaprogramming

JCLI News

Created 30/05/2020 | Updated 14/11/2020 Status: jcli is still being supported

Any misc news about JCLI, such as changelogs.

  1. Release v0.5.0 - Basic yet adaptable configuration
  2. Release v0.6.0 - Better argument parsing
  3. Release v0.7.0 - TextBuffer and partial attribute markings
  4. Release v0.8.0 - asAnsiChars, asAnsiTexts, and just in general: Ansi
  5. Release v0.9.0 - Bash completion and ArgBinder validation
  6. Release v0.10.0 - Command Resolver and Double Dash raw args
  7. Release v0.11.0 - Too much to summarise
jcli, dlang, library