Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret
Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 9 22:58:16 PDT 2014
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:21:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Vladimir's talk on Dustmite is now up on Reddit. We ship
> Dustmite as part of the dmd distribution.
>
> But it's a secret.
>
> Just try to find out anything or any mention of Dustmite on
> dlang.org.
>
> The idea "Build It, and They Will Come" is a stupid hollywood
> myth. We cannot go on with creating fantastic, revolutionary
> tools and then keep them a secret.
>
> Dustmite is just one example of this, but it's on top of my
> head because I went looking for a link to it to go with the
> Reddit pointer to the video. It fits in quite nicely with my
> previous antics at discovering there were no links to gdc or
> ldc instructions, and no mention anywhere that to get gdc on
> Ubuntu, one only needs to type:
>
> sudo apt-get install gdc
>
> All you guys building stuff - it's all WASTED EFFORT if you
> don't make it findable by users. /rant
Which is why we need a kick ass website designed to encourage
developers to stay and learn more about D and what is available.
BTW have you seen Haskell's new site: http://new-www.haskell.org/
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