Digital Mars Website

[Jude Young]

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> I still think it would be great if we could unify it under the DPL 
> org. To a newcomer, the current state of things must look like
> there's a pretty fragmented community...
> 
> - Alex
> 

This comment, while slightly unrelated to what I am talking about,
made me think.


I was looking at digitalmars.com for a while, before that I figured
out that it was horribly out of date
and didn't accurately reflect anything in the D world.

I came very close to assuming D was dead and going off to look at
another language. (I was considering Go, But I hate the forced {} syntax)

luckily I found some info on stackoverflow that showed me d-p-l.org.

The main problems here are:
Google results are digitalmars, wikipedia, d-p-l.  It would be better
for newbies if it was immediately obvious that d-p-l is probably the
place they want.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html  That is the first link on
Google.  This page MUST either redirect directly to d-p-l, or have a
note at the top mentioning that d-p-l is the place to go.

Anything else in unintuitive and you will risk other people making the
exact same mistake that I almost did.

The D2 home is d-p-l.org, however the first thing anyone will see if
digitalmars.  digitalmars links to nice websites like dsource.
Dsource seems to be entirely dead.  I have looked, and I haven't found
an up-to-date project there.  So the first thing we are showing people
who might be interested is a out-of-date website and a seemingly dead
project site. I wonder how many people were interested in D until they
assumed that it was dead?

I CAN'T be the only one who thinks that this is entirely retarded, and
could end up being to death of this awesome language.


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