Digital Mars Website

Tobias M. tobias.m at onlinehome.de
Fri Nov 11 15:10:44 PST 2011


Am 11.11.2011 23:58, schrieb 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 out that it was horribly out of date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 who might be interested is a out-of-date website and a seemingly dead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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It was the same with me. I was totally unstaisfied with the digitalmars 
website becuase it seemed to be from before WW2. I totally agree to all 
of that, D is too worthy to "die" ;)


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