Isn't it time

[Nathan Tuggy]

On 2010-01-22 09:01, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:20 +0100, Steve Teale
> <steve.teale at britseyeview.com> wrote:
>
>> That this newsgroup was renamed digitalmars.d2. Probably > 80% of the
>> discussion here is on topics relating to the evolution of the
>> language. Don't get me wrong, as soon as D2 is stable, I'll be the
>> first to switch.
>>
>> But where does the current discussion leave those of us who want to
>> use D and talk about the usage of what is the current mainstream core
>> of the language - 1.055 - if I understand the situation correctly?
>> That should be digitalmars.D.
>>
>> If there was discussion about how good it was that the various flavors
>> of the language were getting in sync, and on idiom, and on cool D
>> programming techniques, and on explanation, I'm sure the newsgroup
>> would pull more people in.
>>
>> As it is, the uncommitted with some interest in D visit occasionally,
>> and leave with the same old, same old feeling.
>>
>> Let's try to turn D into a really active living language, not some
>> vague future possibility. Perception is everything!
>
> IMHO:
>
> digitalmars.D --> digitalmars.D.dev
> digitalmars.D.learn --> digitalmars.D.users
>
> D is not big enough to fork the groups in D1 and D2 IMO, but currently
> there is considerable overlap between digitalmars.D and digitalmars.D.learn
> in what they cover.
>

So, I mostly lurk here (and in fact had a hiatus of a few months where I 
didn't even lurk), but I totally agree with this suggestion.

D.learn just isn't intuitive enough -- it suggests either random newbies 
bumbling around wondering what a "pointer" is, or some kind of 
fast-paced "D academy", neither of which is at all accurate. (Well, 
except that there are occasionally newbies wondering how pointers work.)