Evangelizing Your Cool Product

[Borislav Kosharov]

On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 19:44:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> This is a bit of a generic reply to a constant theme I see here.
>
> It pains me to see a lot of great D projects languish in 
> obscurity, and often the author(s) eventually get frustrated 
> with that and abandon them.
>
> The problem is that "Field of Dreams", i.e. "build it and they 
> will come" is a Hollywood fantasy. The authors simply must 
> promote it. That means, at the barest minimum, writing a nice 
> article that answers the basic questions:
>
>    who
>    what
>    where
>    when
>    why
>    how
>
> and then getting that article published & promoted in social 
> media, online magazines, etc. Note that online magazines are 
> BEGGING for content. Some will even PAY MONEY for decent 
> content.
>
> Throwing code up on github isn't good enough. Expecting people 
> to read the source code to figure out who/what/where/etc is 
> never going to work. A one line announcement "Hi! I just 
> released Dxxxxx! Enjoy!" is going to fail. Hoping that others 
> will pick up the flag and carry it for you is a pipe dream.
>
> I know that people often are reluctant to promote their own 
> stuff because they feel it's immodest. All I can say is get 
> over it! Look at Donald Trump, Steve Jobs, Gene Simmons, Jeff 
> Bezos, Elon Musk, etc. None of them are/were remotely shy about 
> promotion.
>
> Besides, it's fun when others read one's articles and comment 
> on them, a lot more fun than waiting to be discovered.

Wow Walter, your post really motivated me right now. For a few 
days I have this idea about an next gen OS. I only told it to my 
friends and I haven't written it anywhere(but I was planing to). 
Now I will probably create a blog and start writing programming 
articles and explaining ideas I have and projects I work on. But 
the thing that you said about promoting counts for D too. The D 
community is rather small compared to other languages. But in 
recent days I see more and more people starting talking about it. 
 From time to time I see a post about D in reddit and probably 
Dconf '13 boosted the growth. I really hope that D one day 
becomes a success and I will try to write and promote D too in my 
non-currently-existent blog :)