[OT] LLVM 3.9 released - you can try the release already with LDC!

[Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 10:51:16 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 09:42:11 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta 
> wrote:
>>
>> There are lot of projects using LLVM [1]. The fact that LDC if 
>> often cited in the release notes means that it's one of the 
>> best. This is free advertisement, as the LLVM release notes 
>> are read by PL people that may not know D. The fact that LDC 
>> is recognized as one of the most important LLVM projects also 
>> means that the LLVM folks will try to help the LDC folks when 
>> needed.
>>
>> [1] http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/
>
> i dont think counting each time when ldc and d are mentioned in 
> llvm community will help ldc and d to become popular)))

News ticker often refer to the LLVM release notes. E.g. the Heise 
news ticker (http://www.heise.de/) always reports about a new 
LLVM release. But I never succeded to place a new LDC release 
into the ticker. It's simply a good way to more people and get 
some advertising.

With every new LDC release I inform LLVM Weekly 
(http://llvmweekly.org/), too, which is a widely read news 
letter. From one of these source, news about LDC spread to other 
sites like phoronix (http://phoronix.com/).

Maybe counting of each reference is a bit childish (but fun). The 
real question is:

What do YOU do to advocate D?

Regards,
Kai