Spreading the word about D

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 22:02:09 PDT 2008


On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:43:27 +0300, Yigal Chripun wrote:

> Robert Fraser wrote:
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Clay Smith" <clayasaurus at gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:g3jrs4$402$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> 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 agree with all of the "libraries" stuff said before. But I'd also
>>> add a couple other things:
>>>
>>> It's been brought up before, but the official webpage needs to be
>>> maintained better, particularly from the perspective of a D newbie.
>>> Don't get me wrong, this isn't an attack on Walter's web work or
>>> anything. It's just that D has all this good stuff, like Wiki4D,
>>> Chris's snapshots, DFL, etc, but no ones going to be finding these
>>> things unless they actually commit the time amd effort to really dig
>>> around the scene and stumble upon them.
>>>
>>> Think about it this way: If a person hears about "this cool new D
>>> language" and decides they want to know more about it, where are they
>>> going to go? They're going to go find the official D site. (Maybe it's
>>> just me, but if I want to learn about a language, finding the official
>>> site would be my first step.) But then they get there and see these
>>> outdated pages about the major projects and sites for D, and if they
>>> stumble upon, for instance, Chris's D Snapshots and DSource instead of
>>> Elephant and the crappy newsgroup web-interface, well then that's just
>>> by pure luck rather than design.
>>>
>>> Which brings up another thing. Newsgroups aren't very inviting. If
>>> Johnny Newbie goes to site "BB" and sees a well-designed web-based
>>> message board, and goes to site "CC" and sees "here's the server and
>>> group name for our newsgroup" (interestingly, I can't even seem to
>>> find the page that says that right now - just direct links into the
>>> not-very-good web-reader) or even worse: a mailing list, then he's
>>> gonna be a lot more likely to join in on community "BB". I know I
>>> would. So...I'm not saying we should switch from newsgoups to a
>>> message board. I'm just saying, if we're going to stick with
>>> newsgroups, then getting a better web-interface should be a priority.
>> 
>> I think Walter needs to let someone in the community take over (at
>> least partially) the main D page... someone with web design skills ;-P.
>> And the backend for a newsreader would make an interesting D project,
>> as well.
> 
> vote +100
> 
> Also, what about using Google groups?

There is a D programming group on Google groups. The probably is that no 
one is there. There are people signed up for it, like 60, but the help 
seems to come from the ng so there isn't much point posting there. As of 
right now, I can tell you there is no spam coming in. I even set it up te 
send me emails upon any message posting since activity is so low. It 
would be great to see the news move in my opinion.



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