dlang website design

[Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d]

> I may be wrong, but I think that refactoring an existing web 
> library, renaming the imports of an existing GUI library, and 
> making a few "marketing" changes to the D web site to make it 
> more beginner-friendly would not require much man-power, while 
> this may have the potential to make a HUGE impact on how D is 
> actually PERCEIVED.

Python language maintainers have a similar approach, and it pays 
off...

If you look at the PYPL page (http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html), 
you will read this :

"Worldwide, Java is the most popular language, Python grew the 
most in the last 5 years (8.7%) and PHP lost the most (-5.0%)"

Here is what Dlang's official blog says about Python :

"On the author’s MacBook Pro, the Python version takes 12.6 
seconds, the D program takes 3.2 seconds. This makes sense as the 
D program is compiled to native code. But suppose we run the 
Python program with PyPy, a just-in-time Python compiler? This 
gives a result of 2.4 seconds, actually beating the D program, 
with no changes to the Python code."

(https://dlang.org/blog/2017/05/24/faster-command-line-tools-in-d/)

So actually it can even run faster than D, without any 
significant optimization...

For those still not convinced, I suggest they compare the 
popularity of D, Kotlin, Golang and Python on Google trends :

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=dlang,kotlin,golang,python
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=dlang%20language,kotlin%20language,golang%20language,python%20language

The green line kilometers high above the ground this Python, 
whose I praised the website.

The red line is Kotlin. While available since only a few months, 
it is already competing with Go's orange line in terms of 
popularity.

Btw their first example is a "Hello World", in different versions.

And the completely flat blue line below all the three other 
curves, which desperately looks like the electrocardiogram of a 
dead heart, it is D's current popularity (or relative 
unpopularity should I say) in Google searches.

QED...

Anyway, it seems that not many people on this forum see any 
interest in improving D's popularity on the web with just a few 
cheap cosmetic changes to better align it with contenders like 
Python or Go, so I will bothered people with unwanted advices.

Instead, may I suggest that we dig the grave deeper by putting 
even more complicated examples on D's code roulette so that we 
make sure that only the elite of programming could remain 
interested in using this language ?

Whoops, sorry, this is already done at the moment actually. Ok, 
then I said nothing... LOL