Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[superdan]

== Quote from retard (re at tard.com.invalid)'s article
> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:58:03 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> > D is an extremely powerful language, but when I read complaints and
> > sighs about other languages, few seem to know that these problems are
> > solved with D. Essentially, we have a marketing problem.
> >
> > One great way to address it is by writing articles about various aspects
> > of D and how they solve problems, like
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb14j/
> compiletime_function_execution_in_d/
> >   which was well received on reddit.
> >
> > Anyone have good ideas on topics for D articles? And anyone want to
> > stand up and write an article?
> >
> > They don't have to be comprehensive articles (though of course those are
> > better), even blog entries will do.
> Well, I for one, like to know when the D2 will be officially published. I
> thought there was a bugfix week and the TDPL was written because D2 is
> almost ready and there was supposed to be a big kaboom.
> The version number is already at 2.046 but there are maybe 100 bugs
> waiting in the bugzilla with patches and the compiler & spec are
> seriously broken. When will it be usable? What will be the version number
> of the first usable D2 dmd? There was a "huge" D1 release party, but I'm
> not sure when it's a good time to move to D2. It's not enough that the
> examples from the book work, D needs to be ready for commercial quality
> applications. What's the library status? Where are the official
> milestones? Future plans? What's happening here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

thanx fer yer self entitlement asshole.