Thoughts about D

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:35:04 UTC, IM wrote:
> On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 08:33:42 UTC, IM wrote:
>> - More exposure. I sometimes feel like there isn't enough D 
>> material to consume on a regular basis (and I and certainly 
>> many others are eager to learn more and more about the 
>> language). i.e. one blog post (weekly?), and a single DConf 
>> annually is not enough. In the C++ world, there's always 
>> something to read (various blog posts) or something to watch 
>> (CppCon, C++Now, Meeting C++, code::dive, Pacific++, ...etc.)
>>
>
> What are the plans to increase exposure?

This is something that has gone in fits and starts over the years 
because of a lack of dedicated manpower, but the pace has been 
gradually to picking up. As of recently, I'm working on several 
tasks in this direction, big and small, with the support of the D 
Foundation. For example, we now have a D Language Foundation 
channel on youtube [1] where I'm currently in the process of 
collecting DConf videos that are scattered around different sites 
and accounts (working on 2014 first, since several of the video 
links on that edition of dconf.org were broken). It's not ready 
for announcement yet, but I hope to be there by the end of the 
year. There are a number of other things I'm looking at that have 
tended to slip through the cracks because they've been overlooked 
or no one has stepped in to do them.

On the blog, I would love it if I could keep up a steady pace of 
once a week (I optimistically suggested twice-weekly postings 
when I first pitched it!), but I have neither the time nor the 
depth, for the sort of content we need, to maintain that pace 
myself. I'm always open to proposals for new material -- guest 
post ideas, project highlight suggestions, anything I can 
evaluate for suitability.

That's only a part of the story though. There are D blogs out 
there other than the official one, but they're quiet for long 
periods of time. I want to see people writing about their 
projects, posting daily/weekly/monthly progress reports, 
live-streaming code sessions, writing articles for other web 
sites (like gamedev.net), initiating conversations on reddit 
(particularly on /r/d_language [2], the recent updating of which 
was another of the little tasks that needed doing), sharing D 
examples in other programming forums, filling in the holes in our 
Wiki and Wikipedia... the same stuff C++ users do at scale.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5DNdmeE-_lS6VhCVydkVvQ
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/