dlang website design

[Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 13:43:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 08:49 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> 1/ it's not especially obvious that D is also an easy to learn 
>> scripting language.
>
> Ok, I think I understand your goal now.
>
> There's a thing that I'd like to change on the home page, and I 
> think it aligns with your thoughts: "D is a systems programming 
> language" -> "D is a general-purpose programming language".
>
> "Systems programming" puts the focus on the low-level side of 
> D, which may not even be its strong side (yet) if one looks at 
> the recent -betterC efforts.
>
> "Systems programming" may scare users away who think they're 
> not good enough for that kind of programming.
>
> "General-purpose programming" is a better fit, in my opinion.
>
> Regarding the examples, I'd prefer very simple ones, too. Hello 
> World, 99 Bottles of Beer -- stuff like that. I think there's 
> the idea that examples should show some cool feature of D, but 
> I'd say they should just show how D looks with easy-to-follow 
> code. Maybe have a distinct page with cooler examples.
>
> So, overall, I think dlang.org could be tweaked to be more 
> directed at newbie programmers, and I wouldn't mind that. I 
> don't think it would need a major overhaul of the site; just 
> some tweaks. But personally, I'm not really interested in the 
> marketing of D, so I'm not going to push for these things.

+1 :)