Increasing D's visibility

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/15/14, 5:11 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:56:21PM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Isaac Gouy:
>>
>>> "Why don't you include language X?"
>>>
>>> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex
>>
>>  From that page:
>>
>>> By now - if they had actually made measurements, and published and
>>> promoted them - their website would be highly ranked.<
>>
>> This is probably false, for two or more reasons.
> [...]
>
> It's usually a waste of time trying to work with people like that who
> have already made up their minds about something, and obviously isn't
> going to budge no matter what.

My understanding of this situation is different. We've wronged the man 
in the past and a sign of good will from us would go a long way. 
Continuing to assume he's at fault and there's nothing we can do just 
prolongs the stalemate.

> I'd say we should start our own webpage and post results of our own
> performance tests. In this day and age of social networks, all it takes
> is a little promotion and the news will get around. As long as our
> benchmarks are objective and we don't try to deliberately skew results
> in D's favor, it should eventually get noticed (and linked to) by
> reasonable people, and it will become known.

That would be exactly what's needed. Who's volunteering?


Andrei