Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Jimmy Cao]

I think that's a great idea (the common font, colors, logo(?))

We also need a list of tutorials and wikis.
Here's the tutorial/wiki I'm working on:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/D_(The_Programming_Language)

I also think that ddoc isn't as good as many other alternatives, but I don't
think it's easy to change it.


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:02 AM, James Fisher <jameshfisher at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>>
>> The main problem with D is that there's too many people with their lists
>> about what's wrong with D, and not enough willing to actually jump in and
>> help out. I'm sorry if I come across a bit harsh, but we seriously get
>> another one of these "What's wrong with D" lists every few weeks (and each
>> one seems more out-of-date than the last) and hardly any of the people
>> writing them have ever actually made any real contributions besides just
>> complaints. If you're going to help out, then fantastic, and welcome
>> aboard!
>> But if not, then please understand that we already have more volunteer
>> supervisors than we need, so that sort of thing gets very frustrating for
>> those of us dedicating our own time and effort for free to actually
>> accomplish all the goals.
>>
>
> Well, sure I'm willing to help.  The reason I started out like this was to
> gauge whether these problems were actually seen to be problems by the
> community -- you get a lot of projects that are so inward-facing that
> suggestions that it should be otherwise are taken as insults.
>
> While my coding abilities aren't bad, I figure that's not what I'm best
> helping with here.  Key things I'd suggest I could help with are:
>
>    - A simple D brand identity.  Nothing complex, just an official
>    pronouncement that "this is our logo/logotype, this is our color palette,
>    these are the one or two fonts we use, here's how we describe ourselves,
>    here are some simple guidelines on how to build a D-branded site/document".
>     This could be hashed out and maintained in a small GH repo.
>    - Applying that to d-programming-language.org.
>    - Coming up with a long list of D community
>    sites/wikis/tutorials/howtos/documentation/link lists.  Identifying projects
>    that overlap domains and drumming up support for these to be merged into the
>    most popular of them or into d-programming-language.org.  **I do think
>    this is possible!**
>
>
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