[OT] Re: Why don't you advertise more your language on Quora etc ?

[Rico Decho via Digitalmars-d]

> That's a curious statement, because I was trained mainly as a 
> C/C++ programmer, and still use them for my job every day. I 
> was very well-versed in the intricacies of C, and somewhat C++, 
> yet I was very unhappy with them.  For several years I would 
> scour the net during my free time to look for a better 
> language.  I wasn't very impressed with D the first time I saw 
> it, for various reasons, and it wasn't until I found a copy of 
> TDPL in a local bookstore and decided on a whim to buy it, that 
> I really got started with D.  And the rest, as they say, is 
> history. :D
>
> Even though I suspect that I'm in the minority here, I'm pretty 
> sure there's got to be others out there in C/C++ land who are 
> like me, longing for a better language but just haven't found a 
> suitable candidate yet.  So don't discount us C/C++ veteran 
> folk just yet!

My programming language at work remains C++ too, therefore I 
agree that D's clean syntax is very attractive to C++ developers.

Java and C# are also "post-C++" languages, and thus their syntax 
is closer to D (imports, reference types, etc). D's clean and 
powerful syntax may not be as attractive to them.

Unfortunately C++ developers generally have to use this language 
in cases where garbage collected languages like Java and C# 
wouldn't be used.

So D's garbage collector may be a problem to convince most C++ 
professional developers, and D may not seem enough of an 
improvement for most Java/C# professional developers.

But as it can teach both the C++ and the Java/C# way of 
programming, as it's syntax has remained close to all of them, D 
can indeed be "sold" as the best first OO programming language.

Learning C++, Java or C# afterwards is quite easy.

And once you have tried D, you probably will continue to use it 
and promote it, like I do.