Where Is THE Hype?

[Hasan Aljudy]

Jeff wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>> As I recall, tomorrow/today we should have D v1.0, but sheesh, 
>> shouldn't we be making a big fuss about it? Shouldn't we hype up the 
>> web before releasing it?
> 
> It's not necessarily tomorrow, is it? I somehow gained the impression 
> that the goal was a feature freeze as close to new year as possible, 
> then whatever time needed to polish things off before release? Not sure...
> 
> Anyway, that's just an aside. My real question is: are you sure that 
> artificial hype is actually a good idea in this case? What's going to be 
> so spectacular about D1.0 for the /general public/ over previous 
> versions? I understand the impact on library developers especially, but 
> most of those interested are probably already well aware of what's 
> happening.
> 
> What I'm worried about is over-hyping a release that's essentially just 
> a frozen specification, and having potential users come and be 
> disappointed when they find a lack of great and immediately useable 
> libraries (including the standard library), partly because no existing 
> library developers will have had time to react to the release yet.
> 
> Any thoughts on that problem? Am I blowing this way out of proportion?

The idea is just to let people know about v1.0 and the feature freeze, 
because as it stands, I don't think anyone knows about it other the NG 
regulars. For example, even you don't know about it. It was announced by 
Walter a while ago in digitalmars.D.announce; that's it. No one outside 
the NG knows about it unless he's heard it from someone else.