GSoC Mentor Summit Observations and D Marketing

[Walter Bright]

On 10/24/2011 5:42 PM, dsimcha wrote:
> I got the impression that D is not being used partly because of the obvious
> reasons (lack of libraries, legacy code in other languages) but also partly
> because most people, even if they've heard of it, don't know what its most
> important features/benefits are. I think that we need to develop a short,
> memorable "elevator speech" version of its selling points, even if we ignore
> some substantial areas in doing so. The one I used was basically "compile-time
> metaprogramming on steroids, static if, CTFE, string mixins, see std.algorithm,
> std.range and std.parallelism for examples".

You're right, I've been recently wrestling with the elevator pitch thing for D. 
I know we need one. Bartosz has suggested "Systems programming safe and easy."