Choosing D over C++, Go, Rust, Swift

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 15:32:10 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 14:40:05 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 13:47:39 UTC, Dibyendu 
>> Majumdar wrote:
>>
>>> I did find that I had to go through many articles, video 
>>> presentations etc. to form my conclusions - it would have 
>>> been nice if there was a single page on the D website that 
>>> explained why D should be chosen over the other competing 
>>> languages. The information is all there but scattered all 
>>> over the place.
>>
>> Do you have specific suggestions for improvements? The 
>> difficulty is predicting where someone will look for that 
>> information.
>
> I think a prominent Link saying - Why choose D? on the home 
> page. and maybe initially this could take to another page with 
> links to articles, videos etc. But longer term it would better 
> to have a more structured presentation of the benefits. Example 
> - show with examples what can be done with D templates that is 
> hard or not possible with C++. And similarly with other 
> languages.
>
> I would suggest very aggressive 'marketing' of D advantages.
>
> Regards

A set of 'channels' for different use cases might be helpful.  Eg 
bioinformatics, numerical computing, web, etc.  Both for 
tutorials and setting out the advantages.