A very basic blog about D

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 18:54:30 UTC, Baz wrote:
> You're wrong, there's a real need for promoting D worldwide.

Did I say otherwise? I am not sure you are reacting to what I 
actually wrote.

> Just for example, this mainstream (french) programming site has 
> (had?) a forum for D which is not updated or used at all: 
> http://www.developpez.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=fadd36f8505c59f0714e4e24a0c5a195&f=1180

That's a shame.

> Fedora a few years ago has proposed the D language as a part of 
> their very "extremist open source ashole repository". The fact 
> is that D is totally missing from their dev packages ("sudo yum 
> i want some only opensource douche stuff even if I have to type 
> make make install every two minutes"). And If you setup dmd 
> manually they'll propose you to setup ldc, which is not 
> possible due to some broken package dependencies...

I don't understand your visceral hostility here. No one is 
excluding D on licensing grounds -- there might be some distros 
that would prefer not to include DMD, but they'd be happy to 
include GDC and/or LDC.

If D compilers are missing from a distro, or have broken 
dependencies, it's because no one is stepping up to take 
responsibility for packaging.

> Blogs are usefull, D can be used in many editors and compiled 
> in two portables IDE (Xamarin and Geany) and in another 
> mainstream win-only-IDE(VS)...

Yes, blogs are useful. I'm still not sure who your argument is 
with, though.