Evangelizing Your Cool Product

[Walter Bright]

This is a bit of a generic reply to a constant theme I see here.

It pains me to see a lot of great D projects languish in obscurity, and often 
the author(s) eventually get frustrated with that and abandon them.

The problem is that "Field of Dreams", i.e. "build it and they will come" is a 
Hollywood fantasy. The authors simply must promote it. That means, at the barest 
minimum, writing a nice article that answers the basic questions:

    who
    what
    where
    when
    why
    how

and then getting that article published & promoted in social media, online 
magazines, etc. Note that online magazines are BEGGING for content. Some will 
even PAY MONEY for decent content.

Throwing code up on github isn't good enough. Expecting people to read the 
source code to figure out who/what/where/etc is never going to work. A one line 
announcement "Hi! I just released Dxxxxx! Enjoy!" is going to fail. Hoping that 
others will pick up the flag and carry it for you is a pipe dream.

I know that people often are reluctant to promote their own stuff because they 
feel it's immodest. All I can say is get over it! Look at Donald Trump, Steve 
Jobs, Gene Simmons, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, etc. None of them are/were remotely 
shy about promotion.

Besides, it's fun when others read one's articles and comment on them, a lot 
more fun than waiting to be discovered.