Spreading the word about D

[Erik Lechak]

Clay Smith Wrote:

> Couldn't find a specific thread devoted to this topic, so started.
> 
> What do you think is the best way to promote D?
> 
> Here are some ideas I already know about and have seen used successfully.
> 
> 1. Articles - Write D articles and post on digg/reddit
> 2. Tutorials - Teach D newcomers how to use D
> 3. Libraries - Write a library for D / help out an existing D library
> 
> Here is a link that is also relevant to the subject: 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/howto-promote.html
> 
> I'm wondering, what are all the awesome, zany, weird, or unique ways you 
> can think of to promote the D language? Did I cover everything? Are 
> there more effective ways of promoting the language?
> 

I was thinking about writing a simple multi-player 3rd person space-shooter game in D.    I was slowly tinkering with it myself to get into the D programming language, but if anyone is interested,  it would be a good project to cooperatively learn, promote, and develop in D.

So if anyone is interested in learning D, Derelict (openGL, SDL, openAL), and other D related stuff, by developing an open source game reply or send me an email.

Even if your not interested in this project.  Using D to create an open source project that reflects your interests might help.  Getting a lot of people writing D code is probably the best way to promote the language and to foment interest and cooperation in standardizing the D standard library.  

Thanks,
Erik Lechak
prochak at netzero.net