Promoting D

[Walter Bright]

Occasionally people ask what they can do to help promote D. All these 
are free and effective:

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Use it for your projects. At work, point out how much more productive it is.

Write articles/blogs about your experiences using D.

Submit patches for better D support for gnu tools like gdb.

Give a presentation on D at your local programmers' club meeting.

Give a presentation on D at your place of employment, or to your class 
at school.

Submit presentation abstracts on D to conferences. The nice thing is 
that if your abstract is accepted, you'll get a free ticket to the 
conference and maybe even get your travel expenses paid! Well worth while.

Read programming articles and if they don't mention D, but should, email 
the author and point it out.

Make relevant comments about D on programming threads on Reddit, 
Slashdot, Gamedev.net, stackoverflow, ycombinator, etc.

Promote open source D applications that you or others have written.

Email tool vendors and ask for D support.

Email web sites that have categories for programming languages that 
don't include D, and ask for a D category.

Improve Wikipedia pages that mention D. Add mention of D to Wiki pages 
that should mention it. If you know another language, translate the D 
Wiki pages to the Wiki for that language.

Email prolific programming book authors and suggest that they do a book 
on D programming.

Email programming book publishers and ask for books about D.