Publicity (was: Re: Why is 2.0 in the works already?)

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Georg Wrede wrote:

> But frankly, I'm really getting concerned with this issue. D is going
> down on Tiobe, 

The only reason to worry about TIOBE, is that high rankings may boost
knowledge about D. As is rather obvious by looking at the list, D's numbers
are most likely highly inflated, and a reason for this is suggested at

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/is-tiobe-fatally-flawed/

For instance will the web interface(s) to the news groups give very many
hits, probably both 2 and 3 times the real number of posts. Just try
searching for your own name and see how many hits you have at
digitalmars.com :)

Ways to truly help D's publicity (as has been suggested before) is to post
links to blog posts, projects and others to sites like Digg, Reddit or
Dzone, and vote on those you come over that other have posted. For
instance, Daniel Keep's post on how const in D works, is still top 10 on
programming.reddit.com, and I expect him to have had at least several
hundred reads from this, based on similar statistics when one of my posts
were high on Dzone's front page.

I guess one could cheat, and create a page or thread somewhere, where one
could post links that could use some voting, the most important thing
however, is that links are posted in the first place. I have posted my own
links a couple of times, mostly to see if it has a big effect (and it has),
but this don't feel "right" and I think many others who write about D feel
similarly. Of course, many of my posts tend to be not entirely positive, so
they may not always be the best for D (unless one considers the dogma all
PR is good PR) ;)

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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