D For A Web Developer

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 22:09 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
> I can just get stuff done in D in a fraction of a time it takes 
> to do even less in RoR.

This is the stuff marketing campaigns are made from. As well as
informing the cabal that is this mailing list, there needs to be tweets,
Facebook, G+, and proper publishing articles of people switching from
RoR, Grails, Django to web.d and vibe.d and discovering (measured and
guaranteed) significant performance benefits in both time to market and
run time.

Go has gained much of it's traction from provably and consistently
producing simpler, faster and more reliable systems that C, C++, Python,
etc. and getting articles about the success out there. HN is all very
well but it is really another inward looking cabal. Articles about
rewrites of systems written in sober yet humorous tones presenting real
benefits will over a period of a couple of year generate a groundswell
of support.

D may be a lot older than Go, but there is a lot to be learned from the
way non-Google folk created the "buzz" for Go by doing and publishing
data about, as well as chatting on the mailing list. It also helped that
a faction in Canonical switched from Python to Go and got on and did
things that contributed positively to Ubuntu. Whatever your feelings
towards Canonical and Ubuntu, their use of Go has contributed strongly
to the progress and acceptance of the language. 

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