Build It And They Will Not Come

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 8/20/2015 6:25 PM, Mike wrote:
> 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

Humm, I wonder if we could strip it out before the final link.