Website message overhaul, pass 2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/20/11 7:47 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> A few comments:
>
> Can we please not use the term RAII? First, only C++ people know what it
> means, and second, its expansion doesn't tell you what it does or what
> it is used for. Just say something like "scoped deterministic memory
> management" or something like that. I'm sure C++ people will link that
> to RAII, and non-C++ people will have a better idea of what it means.

I think RAII+link is fine. It's an awful acronym, but it has caught on.

> I think the point about the shebang line is unnecessary. It's a
> certainly a nice feature, but doesn't feel important enough to me to
> warrant being on the front-page trying to sell the language. Perhaps
> something about version/debug blocks would be more appropriate as
> they're something that everyone uses.

Good point, will keep in mind.

> "Without preventing virtual machine approaches, D naturally compiles to
> efficient native code." I would add onto the end of that "rivaling and
> often bettering the runtime performance of raw C and C++ code." That's
> what people really want to hear, and it doesn't hurt to be explicit
> about it.

"No mention of other languages." Well I broke that with C-like syntax 
because that's very informative.

> With this point:
>
> "The @safe, @trusted, and @system modular attributes allow the
> programmer to best decide the safety/efficiency tradeoffs of a
> particular application, and have the compiler check for consistency."
>
> I'm not sure the reader can get much from that without knowing what
> those attributes mean.

There's an article link for those interested.


Andrei