Build It And They Will Not Come

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic 
> idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's 
> a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, 
> why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need 
> to tell them why!
>
> Here's the frustrating typical pattern I've seen here for years:
>
> 1. spend hundreds if not thousands of hours developing 
> something really cool
> 2. spend 2 minutes posting a link to the repository on 
> D.announce
> 3. someone posts it to reddit. Ignore it
> 4. get frustrated that nobody looks at it
> 5. get bitter and quit
>

I have a number of projects I'd love to blog about, but I'm 
currently held back by  
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758.  Perhaps now is 
not the right time with the transition DDMD on the horizon, but 
14758 is currently holding me back, and recently kept me from 
soliciting D for my employer's most recent venture.  I have 
defaulted back to C/C++, unfortunately.

If I could get some support on that issue, I really think I could 
make a major contribution to D, and perhaps bring an industry 
with me.  Please just bring me the baton, and I will run.

Mike