Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

Brad Roberts braddr at puremagic.com
Thu Jun 3 17:29:31 PDT 2010


On 6/3/2010 5:15 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote:
> On 04/06/10 00:58, Walter Bright wrote:
>> D is an extremely powerful language, but when I read complaints and
>> sighs about other languages, few seem to know that these problems are
>> solved with D. Essentially, we have a marketing problem.
>>
>> One great way to address it is by writing articles about various aspects
>> of D and how they solve problems, like
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb14j/compiletime_function_execution_in_d/
>>
>> which was well received on reddit.
>>
>> Anyone have good ideas on topics for D articles? And anyone want to
>> stand up and write an article?
>>
>> They don't have to be comprehensive articles (though of course those are
>> better), even blog entries will do.
> 
> Given some ideas I'm happy to write an article or two. I guess the best
> thing to write articles on are the problems D solves which other
> languages have, or how D makes something easier to do - we'd need to
> pick out some specific areas though.
> 
> Robert

Rewording that a little:  How D solved a problem particularly well for you.
Demonstrations are FAR more effective than statements.

Also, not responding to you but rather the general topic, getting the word out
in other venues would help too.  There's been many posts that hit reddit.  That
venue isn't bad, but also has already built up a set of automatic detractors.

Later,
Brad


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