DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 22:15:33 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at 12:28:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>> Perhaps there will be scope for renaming if/when this also 
>> includes graphics when either OpenCL is merged into the Vulkan 
>> API or Petar Kirov gets Vulkan SPIRV generation going on LLVM, 
>> but for now the name stays.
>
> People who GPU program are indeed a small group. But you do NOT 
> entice other people to try it, when they do not even know a 
> language has this feature set. And this comes down to marketing.
>
> Lets post "D has DCompute" or "D has D-GPU"... on Reddit, 
> ycombinator and other forum or news site.
>
> What do you think people will more likely click on?
>

So you don't post either of those titles and instead post "D has 
DCompute: Native heterogeneous computing on GPUs and more, hassle 
free!"

> And so what if people start a big discussion about the name. If 
> only 10% of those people come to the D site from a either 
> language, its a instant success. Positive or negative marketing 
> is a win-win in this case.

For this discussion it is not the case, I haven't seen any new 
names.
So (everybody) please discontinue derailing this thread.

> My advice to Walter is to hire a actual marketing person that 
> can help focus resources and ideas.

Perhaps that is a good idea,  but it is not for me to decide. For 
my part in marketing I plan to give a talk/workshop at IWOCL just 
after DConf next may.