Paradox about D's popularity.

[maarten van damme]

about interfacing to d:
There was some kind of tool out there that is never mentioned on one of the
d websites called swig. If you can make it extremely easy and get the bugs
out of the way (maybe even write a decent tutorial on it which I really
need) linking to c++ would be a breeze.

as for promoting the d programming language I think you should start with
wikipedia. I stranded here because I was sick of java's tunnel-visioned
object-oriented too verbose syntax. c++ was just too damn ugly to look at so
I played a bit with scale/python/c#,... In my search to other languages I
looked up all languages with a similar style to java and saw a page about D
and thought by myself "yet another letter of the alphabet". I kept reading
though and saw the code examples. It looked beautiful.
But then I read a bit further and saw all it's shortcommings. still
interested I went to the digitalmars homepage and got lost somewhere over
there with D1 and D2. After that I went to dsource and saw dead forums and
outdated projects so I gave up on D.
A bit later though I read something about D which was prety recent with a
lot of great responses on so I went back to the digitalmars homepage and
tried the newsgroups. Luckely they were very vivid.

Next big step: learning the language. A lot was similar to java but I wanted
to learn about those features getting promoted in debates against c++. I
found some tutorials on D but they were not sufficient to learn from.
Luckely alexandrescu's book was so complete, well writen and easy to follow.

I think to increase D's popularity one could
- increase ease of linking to c(++) (maybe through swig?)
- rewrite the wikipedia page (seriously)
- revamp dsource. It would be great to see news from the blog "the one with
d" apearing on the dsource homepage. A lot of dead projects should be
archived and one should mention in the forums that a better place to try is
the d newsgroup.
- write some tutorials (always helps)
- get D on some benchmark charts

Great to see someone so motivated joining, good luck :)
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