Random points from a D n00b CTO

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On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 08:45:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 7/14/2014 12:55 PM, Vic wrote:
>
>> - Confusing forum. First listed forum on 'D' is not for D 
>> users, but
>> it's called D! It is in fact for D commiters. This causes 
>> frustration
>> for both users and commiters. (yes there is 'learn D' but it's 
>> 4th down.
>> Commiters forum should be slightly hidden and user questions 
>> should not
>> be answered in commuters but politely asked to post in the 
>> proper forum.).
>
> I don't think that's an accurate description. The d.D newsgroup 
> (for which the "forum" is a web interface) has *always* been 
> where D users discuss D. The design and implementation of the 
> language has very much been an effort with a great deal of 
> community input, which is why so many such discussions take 
> place here. It's not, however, in any way just a "committer's" 
> forum.
>
> The d.D.learn newsgroup was born some time back due to an 
> increase in the number of questions from new D users. Over 
> time, I suppose it has become the place to ask all questions 
> about how to use language features, whether from a noob or not. 
> Although I've been around D 10 years, when I have such 
> questions that's where I post them.
>
> I'm not disagreeing that the "learn forum" should be the first 
> one visible on the page, but just wanted to say that d.D is 
> very much for D users.

This is kind of funny because as far as I understand, 
digitalmars.D is intended to be "user" forum ("commiters" have 
separate mail list) - it just happens that most of its regular 
visitors are so eager to discuss language design that it never 
stops :)