D street cred: Just a thought

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:

> Just a thought for boosting D's street cred:
>
> Perhaps...take a worthwhile C/C++ project with real potential, fork it, 
> and port it to D. And make a real commitment to maintaining it. 
> Obviously a bit of a gambit, granted, but the potential payout is 
> improving a worthwhile tool's maintainability while showing off a 
> real-world example of the benefits and practical worthiness of switching 
> to D.
>
> Just a thought.

my 1 cent: we should stop trying to convert C++ users.